Deliberative mood (
abbreviated
An abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'', meaning ''short'') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word ''abbrevia ...
) is a
grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?"
The
Afar language has a deliberative mood, as in ''aboo'' "Shall I do (it)?", with the
suffix ''-oo'' denoting the deliberative.
References
Grammatical moods
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