ilmausmuodot
Ilmausmuodot, also known as moods in English, are a grammatical category used in many languages to express the speaker's attitude or emotion towards the content of the sentence. They are typically formed by adding specific suffixes or inflections to the verb stem. Moods serve to convey various nuances of meaning, such as certainty, doubt, permission, obligation, or possibility.
In Finnish, for example, the indicative mood is used to state facts or express opinions, while the
Moods are distinct from tense, which indicates the time of the action, and aspect, which describes the