The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker.
[1] It is one of the optative mood forms that survived (archaic) in Lithuanian.
This form has also meaning of third-person dual and plural.
One of the signs of the permissive mood is the prefix te- (of unknown origin[2]); it is added (for primary verbs, which have bisyllabic stem in present tense and stressed ending in first-person present tense) to the form of third-person singular ancient optative mood or to the form of third-person singular indicative mood for the secondary verbs and for those primary verbs, which has unstressed ending in the first-person singular form (for example, the permissive mood of bė́gti (to run; 'bė́ga', [he] runs) is tebė́ga, "let [him] run").
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