Editing Subjunctive mood (section)

{{Short description|Irrealis grammatical mood}}
The '''subjunctive''' (also known as the '''conjunctive''' in some languages) is a [[grammatical mood]], a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it. Subjunctive forms of [[verb]]s are typically used to express various states of [[truth value|unreality]], such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, obligation, or action, that has not yet occurred. The precise situations in which they are used vary from language to language. The subjunctive is one of the [[irrealis mood]]s, which refer to what is not necessarily real. It is often contrasted with the [[indicative]], a [[realis mood]] which principally indicates that something is a statement of fact.

Subjunctives occur most often, although not exclusively, in [[subordinate clause]]s, particularly [[content clause|''that''-clauses]]. Examples of the [[English subjunctive|subjunctive in English]] are found in the sentences "I suggest that you ''be'' careful" and "It is important that she ''stay'' by your side."