optative

Optative is in its form identical to the perfect participle.

Optative: The optative mode occurs in three different forms.

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In 1944, Lewis's articles, "Democratic Education" and "The Parthenon and the Optative" were published, while "Hedonics" appeared in 1945.

The basic paradigm of a verb consists of three persons in three numbers, with the tenses and modes Imperfective, Perfective, Future, and Optative, in both affirmative and negative forms.

On March 11, 1944, Lewis wrote the essay, "The Parthenon and the Optative," in which he made this criticism ("The Parthenon and the Optative," 111f.)

But tell me, are we now in an historical optative time?

There is also an optative mood used in certain dialects.

The optative and imperative are derived directly from the stem.

It had the optative mood, and where is it today?

I'm rather in an optative mood myself this evening.

He suggests that lines 42-47 use an optative voice as a curse against the husband, not a second lover.

The future optative stands for the future, and is only used in this construction.

Depending on interpretation, there may also be an optative.

It is the one of optative mood forms, which survived in Lithuanian language.

The optative, as other moods, is known in active voice and medium voice.

Many religious texts and official government or business letters still make use of the optative subjunctive.

The optative indicates a positive or negative desire or wish.

In certain adverbial frames, the optative indicates positive or negative potential.

It has two closely related moods: the subjunctive and the optative.

That is to say, subordinate clauses take the subjunctive instead of the optative.

Also, there is no imperfect subjunctive, optative or imperative.

In the Germanic languages, subjunctives are also usually formed from old optative mood.

Sanskrit verbs have an indicative, an optative and an imperative mood.

For the imperative, prohibitive and optative form, see the same section on verb morphology above.

Among these are an optative and an antipassive.

The potential optative expresses a future possibility.

The indicative mood is used everywhere, unless the imperative or optative is required.

Tense markers are unchanged in the optative.

The four independent moods are: indicative, interrogative, imperative, optative.

The optative and imperfect have related formations.