Slovene Verbs - Verb Mood and Tense

Verb Mood and Tense

Slovene has 3 verb moods:

  1. Indicative mood, which is used to state a fact or opinion
  2. Imperative mood, which is used to give commands
  3. 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:

  1. the pluperfect (past perfect) tense (predpreteklik), which considers events that occurred before a given event already in the past.
  2. the preterite (past simple) tense (preteklik), which considers events that occurred in the past.
  3. the present tense (sedanjik), which considers events that are occurring.
  4. the future tense (prihodnjik), which considers events that will occur.

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