Why do you say 'God bless you' and not 'God blesses you'?

The original term, "May God bless you" was contracted into God bless you or sometimes just "God bless The verb "bless" is used in this phrase instead of "blesses" because it is in the subjunctive mood. The subjunctive mood expresses a hope, wish, possibility, or opinion. The subjunctive mood is hard to distinguish in modern English because it often has the same form as the indicative mood, which indicates a factual statement.

The subjunctive mood is easiest to see in the 3rd person (he, she, it) or in this case "God NOTE: Most modern-English speakers don't use the subjunctive mood regularly, but it lingers in phrases that have been around for a long time, such as "God bless you" or "Long live the queen. " "Long live the queen" doesn't express a fact that the queen spoken of has lived or is living a long life, (which would be expressed by saying "Long lives the Queen") but rather the hope of the speaker that the queen will indeed live a long life The verb 'bless' in God blesses you is the 'present simple' tense form. The present simple is used, among other things, to denote a timeless action or state, something which is always, or habitually or generally true.E.g."Don't be frightened by Rover.

He loves children The matter may be literally true, or it may be an assertion that something is so So, by saying 'God blesses you', the speaker is making a statement about a (real or perceived) condition of the one being spoken to, saying that they are beneficiaries of God's blessing(s) SUMMARY: 1 God bless you is a good wish for someone's future welfare 2. But God blesses you is a declaration of a present and ongoing state. The speaker believes that the other person is blessed, or has been blessed, by God.

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