Permissive mood

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The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted. It is the one of optative mood forms, which survived in Lithuanian language: the third-person with the ending ë. For example, the permissive mood of verb tekù (to run) is tetekë (let him run). This form has also meaning of third-person dual and plural. One of signs of permissive mood is prefix te of obscure origin; it is added (for primary verbs, which has 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).^[1]

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