irrealis

noun /ɪɹiˈɑːlɪs/

1. An irrealis construct.

   […] then it would make sense to view Australian past irrealises as TAM forms combining a modal stative predicate (conveying e.g. a capacity, expectation, or desire state) with a past imperfective content.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from New Latin irreālis (“intangible, immaterial”), from Latin in- (“un-: not”) + reālis (“real, material, composed of physical things”), from res (“thing”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”). Doublet of irreal.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry irrealis (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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