Hypothetical mood (abbreviated HYP) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages (for example Lakota) which indicates that while a statement is not actually true, it could easily have been.
[1] For instance, in English, "You know you shouldn't play with knives!
conveys a meaning that would be expressed with the hypothetical mood in Lakota.
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