- 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, ****ctive,
optative, and potential...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- The
optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/;
Ancient Gr**** [ἔγκλισις] εὐκτική, [énklisis] euktikḗ, "[inflection] for wishing",
Latin optātīvus [modus]...
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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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rules of
vowel harmony.
Turkish also has a
separate optative mood.
Conjugations of the
optative mood for the first-person
pronouns are
sometimes incorrectly...
- "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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Ancient Gr****
verbs have four
moods (indicative, imperative,
subjunctive and
optative),
three voices (active,
middle and p****ive), as well as
three persons...
