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<p>Various sources I've read (e.g., the Wikipedia entry on Klingon)
say that Klingon has two moods: indicative and imperative. Maybe
this is right. But what determines whether something is a mood?
Does Klingon have an interrogative mood (<b>bItlhutlhtaH'a'</b><i>
Are you drinking?</i>)? What about an optative mood (<b>bIQuchjaj</b><i>
May you be happy</i>)? We know that we can create an irrealis
with <b>net jalchugh; </b>is this a subjunctive mood? Or does a
mood require an inflected verb? Do the qualification suffixes
create a mood?<br>
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<p>Basically, how does one determine what moods a language actually
has, and can we apply this to Klingon?<br>
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