Deliberative Mood
Definition:
Deliberative mood is a directive mood which signals the speaker's request for instruction from the addressee as to whether to do the proposition expressed in the utterance.
Examples:
(English)
Shall I water the grass?
(Afar)
The -oo suffix signals deliberative mood, as in aboo ‘Shall I do (it)?’
Source:
146
107–108
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