The potential mood can be used only in present and perfect tenses.

The potential mood indicates that an action is possible.

The potential mood is rather rare, and corresponds to "may" or "might" in English.

Though the data is less solid, other potential mood enhancers include:

The potential mood is used to express that the action or state expressed by the verb is likely but not certain.

There are three moods: indicative, imperative and conditional; the potential mood has disappeared.

The potential mood is a mood of probability indicating that, in the opinion of the speaker, the action or occurrence is considered likely.

Potential mood is marked with -hang and hortative with the particle ts'an (in the same position as the tense suffixes).

Some cases and moods are rarely constructive in spoken Finnish, e.g. the instructive and comitative cases and the potential mood.

The My Mood Monitor Screen (M-3 Screen) is an online self-rated checklist that screens for potential mood and anxiety symptoms.

Some languages also have assimilation (linguistics) rules based on sonority hierarchy, for example, the Finnish potential mood (e.g. '-tne- -nne-').

The verbal auxiliary infixes are used to indicate tense, certain forms of the subjunctive, progressive implication, the potential mood, as well verb focus in the present indicative tense.

The section has therefore initiated or participated a number of such treatment studies of new atypical antipsychotics and potential mood stabilising medication and is also developing computerised and web-based applications for disease self-management.

These can be put in the present and past tenses in the indicative and subjunctive moods, in three tenses in the conditional and potential moods, and in one tense in the imperative.

The potential mood receives the suffix -(e)ł, while the causative mood suffix is -(e)r. Again, the epenthetic vowel is dropped when the stem ends in a vowel or if another suffix starting with a vowel is attached.