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optative mood

DEFINITIONS OF: optative mood

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n a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs

Synonyms:
optative
Type of:
modality, mode, mood
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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