Verb Mood and Tense
Slovene has 3 verb moods:
- Indicative mood, which is used to state a fact or opinion
- Imperative mood, which is used to give commands
- Conditional mood, which is used to state possibilities or wishes, for example, If only I knew that...
Of the moods, only the indicative has a complete set of verb forms.
In Slovene, there are four tenses:
- the pluperfect (past perfect) tense (predpreteklik), which considers events that occurred before a given event already in the past.
- the preterite (past simple) tense (preteklik), which considers events that occurred in the past.
- the present tense (sedanjik), which considers events that are occurring.
- the future tense (prihodnjik), which considers events that will occur.
Read more about this topic: Slovene Verbs
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