bùvusi beskaĩtanti |bùvę beskaitą̃, bùvusios beskaĩtančios |- !Past iterative inchoative |bū́davęs beskaitą̃s, bū́davusi beskaĩtanti |bū́davę beskaitą̃, bū́davusios beskaĩtančios |- !Future inchoative |bū́siąs beskaitą̃s, bū́sianti beskaĩtanti |bū́sią beskaitą̃, bū́siančios beskaĩtančios |} The indirect mood, sometimes called "participle speech", has multiple uses, but primarily denote actions not experienced directly by the speaker and bearing a high degree of uncertainty: Čia kažkada stovėjusi tvirtovė – [I'm not really sure, it seems like] some time ago there stood a fortress here. Another widely known use of the indirect mood is describing actions in fictional literature (especially folklore) (could be considered as an equivalent of French Passé simple, except that in Lithuanian it is not limited to the past): Kartą gyvenęs kalvis, kuris turėjęs du sūnus – Once there lived a smith who had two sons. In modern Lithuanian this mood is not very widely used, because other ways of expressing uncertainty and fictional events exist. Imperative mood The imperative mood has three forms or tenses (simple, perfect and inchoative). The simple form of the 2nd person of singular, the 1st and the 2nd persons of plural is very regular: Remove the infinitive ending -ti (the stress pattern is always the same as the infinitive). Add the suffix -k- to the stem. Finally, add the corresponding ending. The 3rd person imperative is sometimes called the "optative mood" and has numerous equivalent forms: By adding a simple grammatical prefix te- to the 3rd person of the present tense (tedìrba – let him work). Used moderately often. By adding a simple grammatical prefix te- to the 3rd person of the present tense and replacing the ending with -ie or -ai (tedirbiẽ – let him work, teskaĩtai – let him read). Obsolete / rare. By adding one of the particles tè, tegùl, tegù, laĩ before the 3rd person of the present tense (or sometimes the future tense): tegùl dìrba – let him work, laĩ skaĩto – let him read. Used very often. {| class="wikitable" |- ! ! colspan=1| dìrbti – to work ! colspan=1| norė́ti – to want ! colspan=1| skaitýti – to read ! colspan=1| praũstis – to wash oneself ! colspan=1| bū́ti – to be |- |align="right"|I |colspan=5|— |- |align="right"|You (singular) |dìrbk(i) |norė́k(i) |skaitýk(i) |praũskis |būk(i) |- |align="right"|He/She/It |tedirbiẽ / tedìrba |tenoriẽ / tenóri |teskaĩtai / teskaĩto |tesiprausiẽ / tesipraũsia |teesiẽ / tebūniẽ / tebùs |- |align="right"|We |dìrbkime |norė́kime |skaitýkime |praũskimės |bū́kime |- |align="right"|You (plural) |dìrbkite