Injunctive mood

The injunctive is a prehistoric and altindogermanischer mode of the verb in addition to the indicative, subjunctive, optative and imperative. Karl Hoffmann ( Indo-Europeanist ) According to the injunctive was originally used only to mention a happening without any temporal allocation ( as so-called Memorativ ). So he has no past meaning, although it looks externally like a augmentlose past tense. While the indicative the validity of a statement claiming it presupposes the injunctive.

Get the injunctive V.A. in Vedic, where it is additionally as mā prohibitive, so as verne inter imperative in the sense of a ban, used in conjunction with the particle. The augmentlosen Imperfektformen in Homeric Greek are to be interpreted as original Injunktive.