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Meanings of optative in English
Russian
желательное наклонение Spanish
optativo Synonyms
Examples for "mood"
Examples for "mood"
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Political changes also affected the mood of the Brazilian people, he said.
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Khrushchev's mood had changed many times during the course of the week.
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Image of the week: Red mood The green movement has gone red.
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This shows that people sell when the general market mood isn't good.
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Yet the actual Convention consisted of grave men in an earnest mood.
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Please signal 'all clear' by setting runway approach lights to strobe mode.
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However, their targets and mode of action on the targets remain unknown.
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Also read: Borderlands 3: A totally new game with Arms Race mode
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But is it paralysing to remain in crisis mode for four years?
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In fact, you can create a file with mode 000 by typing:
Usage of optative in English
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Thus much, if it may please your Lordship, was in the optative mood.
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Or the indicative in place of the optative, as (I. ii.
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And, on the contrary, the optative for the indicative, as (I. v. 388):-
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Fondness for optative in indirect constructions, i.
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It is masculine, feminine, and neuter in gender, singular by nature, and generally accusative, and it is optative in mood and full of acute accents.
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The Imperative and Optative moods clearly do not convey assertions at all, while the Subjunctive can only figure as a subordinate member of some assertion.
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'We leave room on every subject for the human or optative part; for it is a part of science to make judicious inquiries and wishes.'
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"For lovers," he said sagely, "are either in the optative mood, the desperative, or the exultative." This time he had used the optative.
Frequent collocations
Translations for optative
Spanish
Optative through the time