noun
- plural of optative; verb forms or moods expressing wish, desire, or hope
Usage: grammar
Examples
- The ancient Greek optatives expressed wishes and possibilities.
- Students struggled to identify the optatives in the Latin text.
- The grammar book explained how optatives differ from subjunctives.
- Sanskrit contains several types of optatives for different meanings.
- The teacher marked all the optatives in the passage.
- These optatives show the speaker’s uncertainty about the action.