The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/; abbreviated OPT) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope regarding a given action. It is a superset...
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tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and potential...
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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...
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help". The optative mood expresses hopes, wishes or commands. Other uses may overlap with the subjunctive mood. Few languages have an optative as a distinct...
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rules of vowel harmony. Turkish also has a separate optative mood. Conjugations of the optative mood for the first-person pronouns are sometimes incorrectly...
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The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/; Ancient Greek [ἔγκλισις] εὐκτική, [énklisis] euktikḗ, "[inflection] for wishing", Latin optātīvus [modus]...
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Northern Mansi (section Optative mood)
the mood and tense. There are four moods: indicative, mirative, optative, imperative and conditional. Indicative mood has no suffix. Imperative mood exists...
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Aorist (Ancient Greek) (section Optative mood)
determining the mood of verbs in subordinate clauses. That is to say, subordinate clauses take the subjunctive instead of the optative. οἱ τύραννοι πλούσιον...
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Ancient Greek verbs (section Optative)
Ancient Greek verbs have four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative), three voices (active, middle and passive), as well as three persons...
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"if by chance" with the optative mood. In the first example below, πείσειαν (peíseian) "they might persuade" is aorist optative: πορευόμενοι ἐς τὴν Ἀσίαν...
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languages distinguish between the optative mood and an imprecative mood (abbreviated IMPR). In these languages, the imprecative mood is used to wish misfortune...
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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...
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Armenian verbs (section Optative mood)
(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...
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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...
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Adyghe morphology (section Optative mood (~рэ~))
look beautiful" → сыдахэба /sədaːxabaː/ "doesn't I look beautiful" Optative mood is expressed with the complex suffix ~гъот or ~гъует or ~гъэмэ : укIуа-гъот...
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Subjunctive (Ancient Greek) (category Grammatical moods)
mood (Greek ὑποτακτική (hupotaktikḗ) "for arranging underneath", from ὑποτάσσω (hupotássō) "I arrange beneath") along with the indicative, optative,...
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Ancient Greek grammar (section Indicative mood)
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...
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Old English subjunctive (category Grammatical moods)
related moods: the subjunctive and the optative. Many of its daughter languages combined or confounded these moods. In Indo-European, the optative mood was...
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Central Alaskan Yupʼik (section Grammatical mood)
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...
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Kabardian verbs (section Optative mood (~щэрэ))
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...
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Classical Quechua (section Optative)
are used. The resulting paradigm can be summarised as follows: The optative mood expresses a wish, a (dubious or improbable) possibility, a hypothetical...
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Persian verbs (section Optative)
'have!' Although it mostly appears in classical Persian literature, the optative mood is sometimes used in common Persian. It is formed by adding -ād to the...
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Proto-Indo-European verbs (section Optative)
Indicative mood of perfective verbs. Optative mood Stative endings used for Indicative mood of stative verbs. Imperative endings used for Imperative mood of all...
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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...
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Ancient Greek accent (section Optative)
eboulómēn 'I wanted' The ending -ει -ei always counts as long, and in the optative mood, the endings -οι -oi or -αι -ai also count as long and cause the accent...
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Subjunctive in Dutch (category Grammatical moods)
gegaan zijn. In Dutch, the subjunctive mood can express a wish: hence, it fulfills the function of the optative mood (wensende wijs) in other languages....
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infinitive, the synthetically-formed future, and perfect tenses and the optative mood. Many have been replaced by periphrastic (analytical) forms. Pronouns...
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losing some features and gaining others. Features lost: dative case optative mood infinitive dual number participles (except the perfect middle-passive...
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Lithuanian grammar (section Indicative mood)
corresponding ending. The 3rd person imperative is sometimes called the "optative mood" and has numerous equivalent forms: By adding a simple grammatical prefix...
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Finnish grammar (section Optative)
used instead: mennään! = 'let's go!' The optative mood is an archaic or poetic variant of the imperative mood that expresses hopes or wishes. It is not...
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