- 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...
- The
optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/;
Ancient Gr**** [ἔγκλισις] εὐκτική, [énklisis] euktikḗ, "[inflection] for wishing",
Latin optātīvus [modus]...
-
moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive, ****ctive,
optative, and potential.
These are all
finite forms of the verb. Infinitives, gerunds...
- Indo-European languages, had two
closely related moods: the
subjunctive and the
optative. Many of its
daughter languages combined or
merged these moods. In Indo-European...
-
Ancient Gr****
verbs have four
moods (indicative, imperative,
subjunctive and
optative),
three voices (active,
middle and p****ive), as well as
three persons (first...
- uses the imperfect. A wish
about the ****ure uses the
optative with or
without a particle; an
optative of wish may be unattainable. The
aorist indicative...
- 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...
-
particles received stress, as did the
perfect participle suffix and the
optative suffix when
these forms have ****ure meaning. In the
closely related Xibe...
- from ὑποτάσσω (hupotássō) "I
arrange beneath")
along with the indicative,
optative, and imperative, is one of the four
moods of the
Ancient Gr**** verb. It...
- plural).
Verbs have four
moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and
optative) and
three voices (active, middle, and p****ive), as well as
three persons...
