The Conditional in Everyday Estonian: Its Form and Functions
The Conditional in Everyday Estonian: Its Form and Functions

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses, first, on the morphological regularities of the conditional in Estonian everyday conversations, and then its functions. In the conditional mood Estonian has forms both with and without personal endings in the 1st and 2nd person singular and 3rd person plural. In addition to those a short or long form of a personal pronoun can occur with the verb form; the pronoun can be also left out. The present article will look at the relations between different forms and functions. Attention will be paid also on which verb stems the conditional marker is added to and how the conditional forms of different core verbs have received a specific lexicalized meaning.

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