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1.4.Mood
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The term mood is used here to refer to morphological categories of the verb that are used in specific semantic sentence types (declarative, interrogative, command, wish, etc.). For Dutch we can distinguish between the indicative, the imperative and (in more or less formulaic expressions) the subjunctive mood. We will discuss these cases in the order given here.

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a. Jan leest een boek.
indicative
  Jan reads a book
  'Jan is reading a book.'
b. Lees dat boek!
imperative
  read that book
  'Read that book!'
c. Lang leve de koningin!
subjunctive
  long live the Queen
  'Long live the Queen!'
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