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Propositive mood

grammatical mood

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7250419 ↗
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The propositive mood (abbreviated prop) expresses proposals or suggestions as a grammatical mood. An example in Korean:

가게에 간다. gage-e ganda. – "Goes to the shop." (declarative)

가게에 가라. gage-e gara. – "Go to the shop." (imperative)

→ 가게에 가자. gage-e gaja. – "Let's go to the shop." (propositive)

It is similar to the imperative mood, which expresses commands, in that it is directed to the audience.

Languages featuring a propositive mood, as distinct from an imperative, include Korean and Japanese.

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The public source identifies “Propositive mood” as grammatical mood. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Propositive, mood and grammatical.

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This entry incorporates text from “Propositive mood” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.