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2.2.1.2 Mood
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Old Frisian once had the subjunctive morphologically expressed, but it has now gone obsolete.

1
Dät Seelterlound lieuwje hooch.
Long live Saterland

Optative mood is mostly expressed periphrastically:

2
Läit hilliged wäide din Nome.
Hallowed be your name.

Adhortative mood is also expressed by means of the auxiliary verb läite: läit uus deer nit loanger fon bale ‘let’s stop talking about that’, or: läit se man wäge blieuwe ‘let them just stay away’.

Counterfactuals are expresses by means of past tenses: wan iek die waas ‘if I were you’. Past tenses can also express some kind of uncertainty or modesty: dät diede iek kwede ‘I would say that (at least, anyway)’.

What is left of the category mood are mainly the indicative and the imperative. Saterland Frisian distinguishes two forms of the imperative: singular and plural: kum hier ‘come here (sg.)’, kumet hier ‘come here (pl.)’. Imperatives can be accompanied by a second person pronoun: moak du se bliede ‘(you,) make them happy’. A polite alternative to the imperative is the inverted plural second person verb construction: un gröitje Jie ook Jou Mäme ‘and please greet your mother also’.

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