Permissive mood
{{other uses|Permissive (disambiguation)}}
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The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker.{{cite web|url=http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOflinguisticTerms/WhatIsPermissiveMood.htm|title=What is permissive mood?|publisher=SIL International|work=Glossary of linguistic terms|editor1-last=Loos|editor1-first=Eugene E.|editor2-first=Susan|editor2-last=Anderson|editor3-first=Dwight H. Jr. | editor3-last=Day|editor4-first=Paul C.|editor4-last=Jordan|editor5-first=J. Douglas|editor5-last=Wingate|access-date=2009-12-28}}
In Lithuanian
It is one of the optative mood forms that survived (archaic) in Lithuanian. It exists only in the 3rd person.Eugen Hill, [https://brill.com/view/journals/ieul/2/1/article-p42_3.xml?language=enUsing Stem Suppletion for Semantic Reconstruction: The Case of Indo-European Modals and East Baltic Future Tense Formations], Indo-European Linguistics, 2(1), 42-72. {{doi|10.1163/22125892-00201002}} For example, a permissive mood of verb tekti (to run, to flow; about liquids; teka, "[it] runs") is tetekiė́ (let [it] run). This form has also meaning of third-person dual and plural. One of the signs of the permissive mood is the prefix te- (of unknown origin); it is added (for primary verbs, which have bisyllabic stem in present tense and stressed ending in first-person present tense) to the form of third-person singular ancient optative mood or to the form of third-person singular indicative mood for the secondary verbs and for those primary verbs, which has unstressed ending in the first-person singular form (for example, the permissive mood of bė́gti (to run; 'bė́ga', [he] runs) is tebė́ga, "let [him] run").{{cite Efron|Пермиссив}}The Universal Cyclopaedia, 1900, [https://books.google.com/books?id=oNdTAAAAYAAJ&dq=tekie+lithuanian&pg=PA560 p.560] More examples: wikt:lt:tedirbie, wikt:lt:teaugie.