Deliberative mood (

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) is a grammatical mood that asks whether the speaker should do something, e. g. "Shall I go to the market?" The

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has a deliberative mood, as in ''aboo'' "Shall I do (it)?", with the

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''-oo'' denoting the deliberative.

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Grammatical moods {{Ling-morph-stub