Definition
Deliberative mood is a directive mood which signals the speaker's request for instruction from the addressee as to whether to do the proposition expressed in the utterance.
Examples
(English)
Shall I water the grass?
(Afar)
The -oo suffix signals deliberative mood, as in aboo ‘Shall I do (it)?’
Sources 2
- Bliese 1981, 146
- Palmer 1986, 107–108