Deliberative mood

{{Short description|Grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something}}

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Deliberative mood (abbreviated {{sc|del}}) is a grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?"{{cite web|url=http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOflinguisticTerms/WhatIsDeliberativeMood.htm|title=What is deliberative mood?|publisher=SIL International|work=Glossary of linguistic terms|last=Loos|first=Eugene E.|author2=Susan Anderson|author3=Dwight H. Day, Jr|author4=Paul C. Jordan|author5=J. Douglas Wingate|accessdate=28 December 2009|archive-date=25 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125230719/http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsDeliberativeMood.htm|url-status=live}}

The Afar language has a deliberative mood, as in aboo "Shall I do (it)?", with the suffix -oo denoting the deliberative.