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Noun Concept
Categories: Verb types, Grammatical moods
EN
optative mood  optative  OPT  Optitive
EN
A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs WordNet 3.0
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EN
A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The optative mood is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope regarding a given action. Wikipedia
Element of grammar Wikidata
A grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope. OmegaWiki
A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English does not have inflectional optative forms. Wiktionary
Optative. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
mood
form
HAS KIND
permissive mood
Ancient Greek optative
CATEGORY DOMAIN
Sanskrit
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
DIFFERENT FROM
subjunctive mood
conditional
GRAMMATICAL OPTION INDICATES
anticipation
hope
REGION DOMAIN
Greece
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
optative mood, optative
Wikipedia
EN
optative mood
Wikidata
EN
optative
Wiktionary
EN
optative
OmegaWiki
EN
optative
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
optative, Optitive
Wikidata Alias
EN
OPT, optative mood

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