Deliberative mood
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Deliberative mood is a grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?"
The Afar language
has a deliberative mood, as in aboo "Shall I do (it)?", with the suffix
-oo denoting the deliberative.
The Afar language
Afar language
Afar is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is believed to have 1.5 million speakers, the Afar. The basic word order in Afar, like in other East Cushitic languages, is subject–object–verb. Its speakers have a literacy rate of between one and three per cent...
has a deliberative mood, as in aboo "Shall I do (it)?", with the suffix
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs...
-oo denoting the deliberative.