- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- ****ure
condition ("if it were to happen"), both
having εἰ (ei) with the
optative. In this case, only the
apodosis will
distinguish which type of clause...
- want, will),
which has its
present tense forms from the IE
optative. Today, the
optative survives in the
subjunctive of the
Germanic languages. In Faroese...
- 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...
