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English noun: optative mood

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


Synonymsoptative


Broader (hypernym)modality, mode, mood


Domain categorySanskrit, Sanskritic language


Domain regionEllas, Greece, Hellenic Republic









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