The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ OP-tə-tiv or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/ op-TAY-tiv; abbreviated OPT) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope regarding a given...

tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and potential...

had two closely related moods: the subjunctive and the optative. Many of its daughter languages combined or merged these moods. In Indo-European, the subjunctive...

venu. The optative mood expresses hopes, wishes or commands. Other uses may overlap with the subjunctive mood. Few languages have an optative as a distinct...

languages distinguish between the optative mood and an imprecative mood (abbreviated IMPR). In these languages, the imprecative mood is used to wish misfortune...

The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/; Ancient Greek [ἔγκλισις] εὐκτική, [énklisis] euktikḗ, "[inflection] for wishing", Latin optātīvus [modus]...

determining the mood of verbs in subordinate clauses. That is to say, subordinate clauses take the subjunctive instead of the optative. οἱ τύραννοι πλούσιον...

rules of vowel harmony. Turkish also has a separate optative mood. Conjugations of the optative mood for the first-person pronouns are sometimes incorrectly...

the mood and tense. There are four moods: indicative, mirative, optative, imperative and conditional. Indicative mood has no suffix. Imperative mood exists...

The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker. It is one of the optative mood forms that survived...

paradigms. As some moods do not have forms for all persons (imperative has only 2nd person, optative has only 1st and 3rd person, participial mood has no 4th...

"if by chance" with the optative mood. In the first example below, πείσειαν (peíseian) "they might persuade" is aorist optative: πορευόμενοι ἐς τὴν Ἀσίαν...

(a-thematic verbs), the preterite stem and the past stem are identical. The optative mood (called the subjunctive in some grammars) in Armenian is identical in...

Ancient Greek verbs have four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative), three voices (active, middle and passive), as well as three persons...

Indicative mood of perfective verbs. Optative mood Stative endings used for Indicative mood of stative verbs. Imperative endings used for Imperative mood of all...

only. As well as the indicative mood, Ancient Greek had an imperative, subjunctive, and optative mood. The imperative mood is found in three tenses (present...

mood (Greek ὑποτακτική (hupotaktikḗ) "for arranging underneath", from ὑποτάσσω (hupotássō) "I arrange beneath") along with the indicative, optative,...

infinitive, the synthetically-formed future, and perfect tenses and the optative mood. Many have been replaced by periphrastic (analytical) forms. Pronouns...

examples: May he live a hundred years! (optative) Sing! (imperative) Let's sing! (hortative) (1) illustrates an optative. It expresses a wish or hope of the...

is -ke instead), on the person of the grammatical subject (e.g., the optative mood is marked with -li only if the subject is third person), or on the phonological...

will definitely not go. The verbal suffix ~щэрэ (~щэрэт) designates optative mood; ex.: Налшык сыкIуащэрэ: if only I could go to Nalchik; I wish I could...

similar to the athematic optative endings directly to the verb root itself. Essentially, the sibilant -s is inserted between the optative marker -yā and the...

as opposed to solely flections in, e.g., Ancient Greek; loss of the optative mood; merging and disappearing of the -t- and -nt- markers for the third-person...

look beautiful" → сыдахэба /sədaːxabaː/ "doesn't I look beautiful" Optative mood is expressed with the complex suffix ~гъот or ~гъует or ~гъэмэ : укIуа-гъот...

losing some features and gaining others. Features lost: dative case optative mood infinitive dual number participles (except the perfect middle-passive...

related moods: the subjunctive and the optative. Many of its daughter languages combined or confounded these moods. In Indo-European, the optative mood was...

optative mood. Proto-Germanic verbs have three moods: indicative, subjunctive and imperative. The subjunctive mood derives from the PIE optative mood...

are used. The resulting paradigm can be summarised as follows: The optative mood expresses a wish, a (dubious or improbable) possibility, a hypothetical...

corresponding ending. The 3rd person imperative is sometimes called the "optative mood" and has numerous equivalent forms: By adding a simple grammatical prefix...

pluperfect, etc.) developing. There were three moods: indicative, subjunctive (developed from the PIE optative mood) and imperative. Gothic verbs had a number...