Permissive mood

The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker.[1]

In Lithuanian

It is one of the optative mood forms that survived in Lithuanian. For example, the permissive mood of verb tekù (to run) is teteka (let him 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 obscure 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 bégu is tebéga).[2]

gollark: Consider: interstate travel by road is quite slow, thus making the US significantly more divided. Airports are faster, but also more expensive and not good for bulk goods, plus security queues make things slower.
gollark: Small brain: interstate highway system.Large brain: airports everywhere or something.Large glowy brain or something: interstate high-speed maglev railway.Galaxy brain: interstate suborbital rocket system.Transcendent universe brain: interstate passenger railgun.
gollark: I'd hope shadowy conspiracies would be better.
gollark: They're just evil government #124901724, governments do not appear to be very good at long term planning in general.
gollark: At least if there was some evil conspiracy running everything they might have a *strategy* and *long-term planning*.

References
  1. Loos, Eugene E.; Anderson, Susan; Day, Dwight H., Jr.; Jordan, Paul C.; Wingate, J. Douglas (eds.). "What is permissive mood?". Glossary of linguistic terms. SIL International. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  2. Пермиссив [Permissive]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian).
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