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What does irrealis mean?

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Adjective
  1. (grammar) Of a verb: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is not a fact.
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We tend to think it does since we have seen OE possesses an irrealis mood, and many examples in the corpora examplify its existence.
Wuvulu speakers use an irrealis mood to convey future tense.
Irrealis in both the protases is marked by the inflexional subjunefive, as in Present-day English.
Irrealis moods are the set of grammatical moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened.
Common irrealis moods are the imperative, the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, the jussive, and the potential.
Irrealis verb forms are used when speaking of an event which has not happened, is not likely to happen, or is otherwise far removed from the real course of events.

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