Suppositive

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The suppositive (Latin suppositio , 'presumption'; see English suppose ) is a subcategory of the verb mode . It expresses that the speaker suspects something is happening .

In the conjugation , the suppositive is present in Turkish, for example .

Suppositivfunktion have in German the Futurformen , and then the future tense to the present ( "He is stuck in traffic are ") and the Future Perfect in the past ( "He is stuck in traffic have been ") and not to the future. The word probably has a reinforcing effect on a presumed statement.

The future tense II of German is more suppositive.

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