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Grammatical mood
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
Optative_mood
Grammatical feature of verbs
tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and irrealis/potential
Grammatical_mood
Grammatical mood of Ancient Greek verbs
The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/; Ancient Greek [ἔγκλισις] εὐκτική, [énklisis] euktikḗ, "[inflection] for wishing", Latin optātīvus [modus]
Optative_(Ancient_Greek)
Grammatical mood
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
Irrealis_mood
Irrealis grammatical mood
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
Subjunctive_mood
Grammatical mood
rules of vowel harmony. Turkish also has a separate optative mood. Conjugations of the optative mood for the first-person pronouns are sometimes incorrectly
Imperative_mood
Class of Ancient Greek verbs
determining the mood of verbs in subordinate clauses. That is to say, subordinate clauses take the subjunctive instead of the optative. οἱ τύραννοι πλούσιον
Aorist_(Ancient_Greek)
Inuit language spoken in Greenland
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
Greenlandic_language
Uralic language spoken in Russia
the mood and tense. There are four moods: indicative, mirative, optative, imperative and conditional. Indicative mood has no suffix. Imperative mood exists
Northern_Mansi
Armenian language component
(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
Armenian_verbs
Part of grammar in ancient Greek
"if by chance" with the optative mood. In the first example below, πείσειαν (peíseian) "they might persuade" is aorist optative: πορευόμενοι ἐς τὴν Ἀσίαν
Ancient Greek conditional clauses
Ancient_Greek_conditional_clauses
Grammar of the Ancient Greek language
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
Ancient_Greek_grammar
Grammatical mood for cursing others
languages distinguish between the optative mood and an imprecative mood (abbreviated impr). In these languages, the imprecative mood is used to wish misfortune
Imprecative_mood
Linguistic component of Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek verbs have four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative), three voices (active, middle and passive), as well as three persons
Ancient_Greek_verbs
Indicative mood of perfective verbs. Optative mood Stative endings used for Indicative mood of stative verbs. Imperative endings used for Imperative mood of all
Proto-Indo-European_verbs
East Baltic language
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
Lithuanian_language
related moods: the subjunctive and the optative. Many of its daughter languages combined or confounded these moods. In Indo-European, the optative mood was
Old_English_subjunctive
Grammatical mood in Ancient Greek
mood (Greek ὑποτακτική (hupotaktikḗ) "for arranging underneath", from ὑποτάσσω (hupotássō) "I arrange beneath") along with the indicative, optative,
Subjunctive_(Ancient_Greek)
Language of the Yupik family
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
Central_Alaskan_Yupʼik
Verbs in the Persian language
'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
Persian_verbs
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
Permissive_mood
Historical forms of Quechua
are used. The resulting paradigm can be summarised as follows: The optative mood expresses a wish, a (dubious or improbable) possibility, a hypothetical
Classical_Quechua
("even if", "although"). It is formed by the suffix ~ми (/~mi/). The optative mood expresses a wish, desire, or hypothetical outcome ("would that", "if
Adyghe_verbs
Dialects and varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era
losing some features and gaining others. Features lost: dative case optative mood infinitive dual number participles (except the perfect middle-passive
Modern_Greek
in the indicative mood, as opposed to most profanity in Romanian, which is often in the conjunctive or conditional-optative moods, this expression normally
Romanian_profanity
Ancestor of the Germanic languages
optative mood. Proto-Germanic verbs have three moods: indicative, subjunctive and imperative. The subjunctive mood derives from the PIE optative mood
Proto-Germanic_language
Indo-European language
infinitive, the synthetically-formed future, and perfect tenses and the optative mood. Many have been replaced by periphrastic (analytical) forms. Pronouns
Greek_language
Branch of the Indo-European language family
pluperfect, etc.) developing. There were three moods: indicative, subjunctive (developed from the PIE optative mood) and imperative. Gothic verbs had a number
Germanic_languages
Linguistic modality that encourages or discourages an action
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
Hortative
the penultimate: 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
Ancient_Greek_accent
Grammatical features of Classical Nahuatl
second person singular and plural prefixes take the form x(i)- in the optative mood, which is marked only on verbs. The m of am- assimilates totally to
Classical_Nahuatl_grammar
Grammatical rules of the Lithuanian language
corresponding ending. The 3rd person imperative is sometimes called the "optative mood" and has numerous equivalent forms: By adding a simple grammatical prefix
Lithuanian_grammar
Ancestor of the Finnic languages
grammatical moods: Indicative mood – suffix: present none (but -k- in the passive), past -i- Imperative mood – suffix: -k(a)- Optative mood (possibly)
Proto-Finnic_language
Grammatical mood rarely found in Sanskrit, expressing a blessing or wish
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
Benedictive_mood
Uralic language
verbal moods in Udmurt: indicative, conditional and imperative. There is also an optative mood used in certain dialects. The indicative mood has four
Udmurt_language
Verb form derived from common earlier Germanic languages
(German wollen) is more complicated, as it goes back to an Indo-European optative mood, but the result in the modern languages is likewise a preterite-present
Germanic_verbs
Grammatical rules of the Finnish language
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
Finnish_grammar
Set of grammatical rules
superordinate clause is followed by a historical tense in the indicative mood or optative mood. Such a historic tense is followed by: the imperfect when the action
Sequence_of_tenses
Linguistic reconstruction
and in some number words like 'two' or 'both'), three moods (indicative, subjunctive (PIE optative), imperative), and two voices (active and passive (PIE
Proto-Germanic_grammar
Verb adding grammatical meaning rather than content meaning
Tense–aspect–mood The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, defines an auxiliary verb as "a verb used to form the tenses, [grammatical mood/moods], [grammatical
Auxiliary_verb
Extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language
masculine and feminine grammatical gender, and it lacks subjunctive and optative moods as well as aspect. Various hypotheses have been formulated to explain
Hittite_language
Grammar of the Ubykh language
There are eleven distinct moods in Ubykh: indicative; direct, polite, and emphatic imperative; potential and frustrative optative; irrealis and realis conditional;
Ubykh_grammar
Grammatical mood in Latin
The subjunctive mood in Latin (coniunctivus) is a grammatical mood used to express hypothetical, unreal, or dependent actions and their temporal relationships
Subjunctive_mood_in_Latin
Phrase with some components fixed
“borrowed” from other paradigms—ḭš- ‘past tense’, tḭ- ‘potential mood’, ka- ‘optative mood’, -lḭ ‘perfective aspect’. None of the resulting meanings is a
Phraseme
Type of linguistic modality
questions Excluded from wh-questions Excluded from imperatives Excluded from optatives Excluded from complement clauses Excluded from event-related causal clauses
Epistemic_modality
East Formosan language of Taiwan
disposal sentence,[clarification needed] imperative mood, optative mood, and prohibitive mood. Cases are marked by case particles. There are two word
Amis_language
Baby at Filmsite.org Tally, Robert T. Jr. (2009), "Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos, or, Starting Over", in Simmons, David (ed.), New Critical
Cultural depictions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Cultural_depictions_of_Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis
English embedded clause type marking non-real possibilities
While the English language lacks distinct inflections for mood, an English subjunctive is recognized in most grammars. Definition and scope of the concept
English_subjunctive
List of interlinear glossing abbreviations
element' and tam 'tense–aspect–mood element' (also ng number–gender, pn person–number, ta tense–aspect, tame tense–aspect–mood–evidential) etc. These are
List of glossing abbreviations
List_of_glossing_abbreviations
Language
subjunctive forms such as seite, likely derived from the Proto-Indo-European optative mood. The following Faliscan text was engraved on a bronze tablet fastened
Faliscan_language
British colonial official (1881–1955)
imperative, preferring instead the subjunctive or even, wistfully, the optative mood". During the First World War Storrs was a member of the Arab Bureau
Ronald_Storrs
Extinct branch of Indo-European languages
(active and mediopassive), and two moods (indicative and imperative), lacking the subjunctive and optative moods found in other old IE languages like
Anatolian_languages
Verb mood
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.
Subjunctive_in_Dutch
German linguist (1842–1922)
comparative linguistics. In 1871 he published a study of the subjunctive and optative moods in Sanskrit and Greek, which was the first thoroughly methodical and
Berthold_Delbrück
Speech expressing things other people have said without quoting
ὡς/ὅτι clause is usually changed from the indicative mood into the corresponding tense in the optative mood, but the indicative verb is sometimes retained for
Indirect_speech
East Bodish language of north-central Bhutan
gai-kya "let's go". The optative mood is indicated with an ending -ga in most dialects. Some dialects instead have the optative ending -(n)ja, which manifests
Bumthang_language
Ancestor of the Celtic languages
3rd sg. Gaulish bissiet, Old Irish bieid "he shall be" A probable optative mood also features in Gaulish (tixsintor) and an infinitive (with a characteristic
Proto-Celtic_language
Grammar of the Udmurt language
verbal moods in Udmurt: indicative, conditional and imperative. There is also an optative mood used in certain dialects. The indicative mood has four
Udmurt_grammar
moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express volitive modality. Examples are the optative, desiderative and imprecative moods.
Volitive_modality
Vernacular form of Modern Greek
of the verb έχω (I have). The future tense and the subjunctive and optative moods, and eventually the infinitive, were replaced by the modal/tense auxiliaries
Demotic_Greek
Grammatical mood found in Turkish and Armenian
Armenian forms its necessitative by adding the particle պիտի piti before the optative forms, while Western Armenian forms its necessitative with the lu future
Necessitative_mood
Ancestral form of the Kʼicheʼ language in Guatemala
grammatical distinctions: the contrast between indicative and imperative/optative mood (the latter having also a supine-like usage), the valency of the verb
Classical_Kʼicheʼ
Language component
fossilized optative mood of a Proto-Indo-European verb (not to be confused with the Gothic mood known as optative, which corresponds to the subjunctive mood of
Gothic_verbs
Variety of Judeo-Iranian languages from Isfahan, Iran
Lengthening appears to apply unsystematically. Additionally, note that the optative mood is only possible in the third person singular. Infinitives are also
Judeo-Esfahani
Grammatical rules of late Quenya
meaning: "Don't!" (I forbid you to do as you intend). Nai is used for the optative mood: nai tiruvantes. Other particles like ce, cé are used in the corpus
Grammar_of_late_Quenya
Verbal morphology of the Circassian (Adyghe–Kabardian) languages
-п are mutually exclusive.) The Adyghe infix -рэ- [-ra-] marks the optative mood (a wish); the 3rd-person prefix мэ- is replaced by у-. The infix sits
Circassian_morphology
Concept in linguistics
future tense, 1st past tense of indicative, and in the imperative and optative mood. Korean verbs can be negated by the negative verbs 않다 anta and 못하다 mothada
Negative_verb
Non-finite verb form in Ancient Greek
mood of subordinated clauses in indirect speech, instead of a corresponding indicative (either a realis or conditional irrealis one) or optative mood
Infinitive_(Ancient_Greek)
International auxiliary language created 1922
+ INF lass nos amar! let us love! Optative mey + INF yo mey amar may I love Same as English may in the optative mood (as in May the Force be with you)
Interlingue
Sino-Tibetan language of Nepal
Yolmo optative form. Hari describes the dubitative as 'probable future', indicating the sense of decreased certainty that the dubitative mood marks.
Yolmo_language
Extinct Indo-European language of Southeastern Italy
formally and semantically preserved the two Indo-European subjunctive and optative moods. If the reconstructions are correct, we can find, in the preterital
Messapic_language
Endangered Maiduan language of California
defective. The full slate of pronominal inflection is used only in the optative mood and with auxiliary verbs; realis predicates rely on auxiliaries, explicit
Nisenan_language
Extinct language of North America
desiderative and optative mood particles. The desiderative particle, k'ah, is used to indicate that the speaker wishes something were true. The optative particle
Wappo_language
Swedish philosopher
Non-Cognitivism (comparing, for instance, moral sentences to sentences in the Optative mood). The jurisprudential camp of legal realism, broadly speaking, consists
Axel_Hägerström
present system includes the present tense, the imperfect, and the optative and imperative moods, as well as some of the remnant forms of the old subjunctive
Sanskrit_verbs
Intended purpose of spoken speech
An optative sentence describes wishes, desires, blessings, curses, prayers or hope regarding a given action. It is related to the subjunctive mood, a
Sentence_function
Grammatical rules of the Vedic Sanskrit language
imperative, and optative forms. Of these, only the optative was preserved in Classical, forming the benedictive (also called the precative) mood. The aorist
Vedic_Sanskrit_grammar
Endangered Uralic language of Scandinavia
verb conjugates according to tense (past and non-past), mood (indicative, imperative and optative), person (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and number (singular, dual
Lule_Sámi
One of 7 epic Sanskrit poems
bibliography below. Each canto from 14 through to 22 illustrates a particular mood or tense. (For more details see the table above.) A detailed study of the
Bhaṭṭikāvya
Extinct Na-Dené language of US
repetitive Position 2: L, perfective Position 3: G, negative There are two moods, optative and imperative, and two aspects, perfective and imperfective. Verbs
Eyak_language
Part of speech in Proto-Italic grammar
siem). It is possible that the original Proto-Indo-European optative forms the basis for the mood known in Latin as the subjunctive, whereas the original
Proto-Italic_verbs
instead these forms were used as particles expressing the optative mood, see § Subjunctive mood forms. An important cause of the disappearance of the imperfect
History of the Polish language
History_of_the_Polish_language
Endangered Samoyedic language
Nganasan has a broad mood paradigm with nine forms: indicative, imperative, interrogative, inferential, renarrative, irrealis, optative, admissive-cohortive
Nganasan_language
Endangered Uralic language of Scandinavia
Pite Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative, imperative and optative), person (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and number (singular, dual
Pite_Sámi
Extinct Indo-European languages in Asia
Tocharian verbs are conjugated in the following categories: Mood: indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative. Tense/aspect (in the indicative only): present
Tocharian_languages
/ write! Optative mey + inf. yo mey amar / decider / scrir May I love / decide / write Only the same as English may in the optative mood (as in "May
Interlingue_grammar
Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus
derive from the historical subjunctive and the others from the historical optative. In spite of some nuances and tendencies reflecting from their historical
Ossetian_language
Grammar of the Mingrelian language
aorist optative in all other cases. Subjunctive Expresses possibility, wish, desire. The subjunctive mood in Mingrelian is provided by optative screeves
Mingrelian_grammar
Verb form that usually expresses perfective aspect and refers to past events
the non-indicative moods and in the nonfinite forms. But in the indicative, and in dependent clauses with the subjunctive and optative, the aspects took
Aorist
Verbs in the Slovene language
Conditional mood (pogojnik), which is used to state possibilities or wishes in the present or preterite tenses. Optative or hortative mood (optativ or
Slovene_verbs
Group of German varieties
Bavarian features verbal inflection for several moods such as indicative, subjunctive, imperative and optative. See the table below for inflection of the Bavarian
Bavarian_language
Aspect of the language
morphologically distinguishes the indicative present, imperfect and aorist, the optative present, and the admirative present and imperfect (with 6 person/number
Albanian_morphology
Reconstructed proto-language
Proto-Tocharian verbs are conjugated in the following categories: Mood: indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative. Tense/aspect (in the indicative only): present
Proto-Tocharian_language
Critically endangered Tungusic language
particles received stress, as did the perfect participle suffix and the optative suffix when these forms have future meaning. In the closely related Xibe
Manchu_language
Extinct ancient language of Mesopotamia
mood, several special verb forms are used, which are derived from the indicative (non-modal) forms. Wishes and commands are formed with an optative system
Hurrian_language
Grammar of the Navajo language
used interchangeably with the usitative Optative – a potential or desired action, similar to the subjunctive mood of Indo-European languages The modes above
Navajo_grammar
presumptive mood. Also, gender is not distinct except in the past participle tense, in which the verb behaves like an adjective. There are nine moods into which
Romanian_verbs
grammars classify future II as a conditional tense, or even a mood of its own. Optative is in its form identical to the perfect participle. It is used
Serbo-Croatian_grammar
conjugations) Note that traditional Armenian grammars use Aorist for Preterite and Optative for Subjunctive. In Armenian, gerunds / gerundives / converbs (verbal noun)
Eastern_Armenian_verb_table
Northern Athabaskan language
and establishing realis mood. Kaska narratives tend to express a more serious tone through perfective verb forms. The optative mode (prefix u- in conjunction
Kaska_language
OPTATIVE MOOD
OPTATIVE MOOD
Surname or Lastname
English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire, recorded as Bidolf in Domesday Book, from Old English bī ‘beside’ + dylf ‘digging’ (a putative derivative of delfan ‘to dig’), i.e. a mine or quarry.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Ahladitha | அஹலாதிதா
In Happy mood, Delighted
Ahladitha | அஹலாதிதா
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumberland and Durham)
English (Northumberland and Durham) : unexplained. Compare Moad, Mode.
Girl/Female
Arabic
Mood; Dream; Night
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : nickname for a courageous, arrogant, or foolhardy person, or one quickly moved to anger, from Middle English modie ‘impetuous’, ‘haughty’, ‘angry’ (Old English mÅdig ‘brave’, ‘proud’, from mÅd ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, ‘courage’).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English modie ‘impetuous’, ‘haughty’, ‘angry’ (see Moody) + man ‘man’.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Ahladita | அஹலாதிதா
In Happy mood, Delighted
Ahladita | அஹலாதிதா
Girl/Female
Celtic
Moody.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Happy mood
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
In Happy Mood
Girl/Female
Italian
name Cynthia - one of the names of the mythological mood goddess Artemis referring to her birth...
Girl/Female
Tamil
Khushmita | கà¯à®·à¯à®®à¯€à®¤à®¾
Happy mood
Khushmita | கà¯à®·à¯à®®à¯€à®¤à®¾
Girl/Female
British, English
Mood; Way to Success
Surname or Lastname
English or Irish
English or Irish : variant of Moody.
Surname or Lastname
English or Irish
English or Irish : variant of Moody.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Tamil
A Happy Mood; Happy for Entire Life
Girl/Female
Indian
In Happy mood, Delighted
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Beautiful Moodek
Girl/Female
Spanish
name Cynthia - one of the names of the mythological mood goddess Artemis referring to her birth...
Girl/Female
Indian
In Happy mood, Delighted
OPTATIVE MOOD
OPTATIVE MOOD
Boy/Male
African, Celebrity, Hindu, Indian, Swahili, Tamil, Traditional
A Gentleman; Child; Clerk; A Native Clerk who Writes
Boy/Male
German
Evil.
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Lord Krishna; Bearer of Flute
Girl/Female
English Latin
From Laurentium; the place of the laurel trees; place of honor and victory. Feminine of Lawrence...
Male
Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Gaelic Ailill, OILILL means "elf."
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Father of Mankind
Male
Finnish
 Finnish form of Greek Christophoros, KRISTOFFER means "Christ-bearer." Compare with another form of Kristoffer.
Girl/Female
Indian, Kashmiri
Goddess Saraswathi
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Girdle of Light; Sun
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Name of a reciter of Quran
OPTATIVE MOOD
OPTATIVE MOOD
OPTATIVE MOOD
OPTATIVE MOOD
OPTATIVE MOOD
a.
Expressing desire or wish.
a.
Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative.
n.
Something to be desired.
a.
Operative.
a.
Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.
a.
Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.
a.
Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.
n.
Operative surgery.
n.
An operative person or thing.
a.
Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.
n.
The act of optating; a wish.
a.
Inclined to spit; spitting much.
n.
An exhortation.
a.
Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.
adv.
In an operative manner.
a.
Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative.
a.
Obstinate in holding opinions; opinionated.
adv.
In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
a.
turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
n.
The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.