The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/; abbreviated OPT) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope regarding a given action. It is a superset...

tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.) Some examples of moods are indicative, interrogative, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, optative, and potential...

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...

help". The optative mood expresses hopes, wishes or commands. Other uses may overlap with the subjunctive mood. Few languages have an optative as a distinct...

rules of vowel harmony. Turkish also has a separate optative mood. Conjugations of the optative mood for the first-person pronouns are sometimes incorrectly...

The optative mood (/ˈɒptətɪv/ or /ɒpˈteɪtɪv/; Ancient Greek [ἔγκλισις] εὐκτική, [énklisis] euktikḗ, "[inflection] for wishing", Latin optātīvus [modus]...

determining the mood of verbs in subordinate clauses. That is to say, subordinate clauses take the subjunctive instead of the optative. οἱ τύραννοι πλούσιον...

the mood and tense. There are four moods: indicative, mirative, optative, imperative and conditional. Indicative mood has no suffix. Imperative mood exists...

Ancient Greek verbs have four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative), three voices (active, middle and passive), as well as three persons...

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...