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English translation: habilitative

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Portuguese term or phrase:	habilitativo
English translation:	habilitative
Entered by:	Matt Coler

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14:10 Nov 8, 2006

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Portuguese term or phrase: habilitativo ... dubitativo

Outros sufixos não finais também trazem significados modais. Estes foram apresentados nas seções precedentes (cf. habilitativo, desiderativo, dubitativo, evidenciais).

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habilitative, .. [desirative] ..., dubitative

Explanation:
Habilitative:

MORPHOLOGY OF THE MAJOR WORD CLASSES I: THE VERB
verbs conjugation: Turkish **habilitative mood** · vfh - vern force headquarters. U'. Up the creek without a paddle. W:. waxing philosophical -; went to water ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Social_Sciences_and_Philosophy

**The habilitative** appears with the non-instantiative clitic =qwe, usually with the ... prefix agreeing with the verb, because its function, as an "epistemic ...
dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~charleslin/indv101/readings/cupeno/chapter4.pdf

Desiradative:

The topic of mood and modality (MOD) is a difficult aspect of language description ... **Desirative (unrealizable)**: would he were still alive! ...
ilit.umbc.edu/MargePub/MoodandModal.pdf

**The "desirative" bound-verbal element** that transitivizes the verbal stem ... of a request to obtain an object the speaker does not at present possess. ...
micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msninio/Pathbreaking.doc

Dubitative:

**Dubitative mood is an epistemic mood which signals a speaker’s reservation about the accuracy of his or her statement**.
www.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsDub...

dubitative mood **Dubitative mood is a grammatical mood found in some languages that indicates that the statement is dubious, doubtful, or uncertain**.
www.answers.com/topic/dubitative-mood

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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
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habilitative, .. [desirative] ..., dubitative

Muriel Vasconcellos

habilitative, doubtful

Brandi Miller

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2 hrs confidence:

habilitative, doubtful

Explanation:
I'm not 100% sure of the context that these fell in, but after looking at the other words in the list (habilitativo, desiderativo, dubitativo, evidenciais), I think these fit.

Brandi Miller
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