Grammatical mood expressing that an event is inferred rather than witnessed, and is not confirmed
Also known as inferential mood · infer · infr · renarrative mood · oblique mood
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The inferential mood is used to report a nonwitnessed event without confirming it, but the same forms also function as admiratives in the Balkan languages in which they occur. The inferential mood is used in some languages such as Turkish to convey information about events which were not directly observed or were inferred by the speaker. When referring to Balkan languages, it is often called renarrative mood; when referring to Estonian, it is called oblique mood.