(adj) :
expressing a wish or a choice; a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English does not have an optative mood, but it does have some words with peculiar properties e.g., hope, wish, want, desire, which express the optative
(n) :
the optative mood; a verb or expression in the optative mood
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(adj) :
expressing a wish or a choice; a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English does not have an optative mood, but it does have some words with peculiar properties e.g., hope, wish, want, desire, which express the optative
(n) :
the optative mood; a verb or expression in the optative mood