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Word: optative
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- expressing a wish or a choice.
- related or pertaining to the optative mood.
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Noun:
- a verb or expression in the optative mood.
- grammar a verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English doesn't have an inflexional optative mood, but it does have modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.
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