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Optative mood : ウィキペディア英語版 | Optative mood
The Optative mood (abbreviated ) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope. It is similar to the cohortative mood, and is closely related to the subjunctive mood. English has no morphological optative, but there are various constructions with optative meaning. One uses the modal verb ''may'', e.g. ''May you have a long life!'' Another uses the phrase ''if only'' with a verb in the past or past subjunctive, e.g. ''If only I were rich!'' Another uses the present subjunctive, e.g. ''God save the Queen!'' Examples of languages with an optative mood are Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Navajo, Old Prussian, Sanskrit, and Turkish. ==Indo-European languages==
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