optative in English

adjective
1
relating to or denoting a mood of verbs in Greek and other languages, expressing a wish, equivalent to English expressions if only.
This is not simply to avoid criticisms of judgment speech by translating it from the indicative to the optative mood.
noun
1
a verb in the optative mood.
It is difficult not to grin, if Ptolemaic land-leases or Greek optatives or German monographs make you giddy.
noun

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1. Optative aorists and Continuatives are included in one column to represent one function

2. The full set of speaker-oriented modality consists of imperative, prohibitive, optative, hortative, Admonitive, and permissive.

3. Use with the singular form is common, while dual and plural are relatively rare. 'yk'oj'is 'I'm going to go' The hortatory optative is marked by /a/, and usually uses /t/ as an allomorph of the optative marker.

4. In the Athematic active, the “ā” of the “-yā-” disappears in front of vowel endings (that is the “uḥ” of the third person plural active) All forms of the optative are weak

5. (alternating with pff., see below, & with jussives in Apodosis) (c) assuming a purely imaginary case (with imperfect in both clauses, like the double optative in Greek), if, though: Genesis 13:16 so that אִםיֿוּכַל if a

6. Lesson 14 – Verbal prefixes and Continuatives 27/05/2017; Lesson 13 – Past participles, passive and active 14/05/2017; Lesson 12 – Present Participles 30/04/2017; Lesson 11 – A Review 15/04/2017; Lesson 10 – The Imperative and the Optative 02/04/2017; Lesson 9 …