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Injunctive vs Optative - What's the difference?

injunctive | optative |

As nouns the difference between injunctive and optative

is that injunctive is a verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect while optative is a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English has no inflexional optative mood, but it has modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.

As adjectives the difference between injunctive and optative

is that injunctive is pertaining to the injunctive mood while optative is expressing a wish or a choice.

injunctive

English

(wikipedia injunctive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics, uncountable) A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect.
  • (linguistics, countable) A verbal lexeme in injunctive mood.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to the injunctive mood.
  • Pertaining to or being an injunction.

    • optative

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • expressing a wish or a choice.
    • (Fuller)
  • (grammar) related or pertaining to the optative mood.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English has no inflexional optative mood, but it has modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.
  • (grammar) a verb or expression in the optative mood.

    • Derived terms

    * optatively

    See also

    * subjunctive