Jussive vs Subjunctive - What's the difference?
jussive | subjunctive |
(grammar, of a verb) Inflected to indicate commands, permission or agreement with a request.
(grammar, uncountable, and, countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
* 1990 , Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O?Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax ,
* 2003 , Robert E. Longacre, Joseph: A Story of Divine Providence: A Text Theoretical and Textlinguistic Analysis of Genesis 37 and 39-48 , 2nd edition, footnote,
* 2003 , Sharon Rose, The formation of Ethiopian Semitic internal reduplication'', Joseph Shimron (editor), ''Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology ,
* 2006 , Robert Ray Ellis, Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar ,
(grammar, of a verb) Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
(grammar, uncountable) The subjunctive mood.
(countable) A form in the subjunctive mood.
In grammar of a verb terms the difference between jussive and subjunctive
is that jussive is inflected to indicate commands, permission or agreement with a request while subjunctive is inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.jussive
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* (in Arabic grammar) apocopateNoun
(en-noun)page 566,
- For example, in the Aaronide blessing, only two of the six verbs are formally jussives , yet all have the same volitional sense.
page 121,
- As far as the jussive' goes — ignoring the very few occurrences of this in first person — it can be noted that most of the second-person ' jussives are in negative commands.
page 90,
- If, on the other hand, reference is made purely to the root, we would expect all frequentative jussives to appear with a front element, producing *m?t??t??s'' instead of ''m?t??t??s (19d).
page 174,
- The jussive and cohortative usually convey more indirect, or more subtle, expressions of volition than the imperative does.