## Meanings
1. Relating to a verb form used to show wishes, doubts, or things that are not facts.
2. The verb form used to express wishes, doubts, or hypothetical situations.

## Examples
- "If I were you" uses the subjunctive form of the verb.
- In English, the subjunctive is used in phrases like "I suggest that he go."

## Related Forms
- subjoin
- subjunction

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: subjunctīvus

## Etymology
From Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join.

## AI Etymology
Subjunctive is from Latin subjunctīvus (“serving to join, connecting, in grammar applies to the subjunctive mode”), from subjungere (“to add, join, subjoin”), from sub (“under”) + jungere (“to join, yoke”). See join. In present-day use, it can mean relating to a verb form used to show wishes, doubts, or things that are not facts, or the verb form used to express wishes, doubts, or hypothetical situations.

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