| 1. | Examples of languages with an optative mood are Biblical Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Yup'ik.
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| 2. | There is also an optative mood used in certain dialects.
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| 3. | The subjunctive mood derives from the PIE optative mood.
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| 4. | However, the optative mood is not used after every past tense verb that introduces indirect statements.
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| 5. | Wappo also includes pre-verbal optative mood particles.
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| 6. | Some also preserve an optative mood that describes events that are wished for or hoped for but not factual.
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| 7. | The optative mood can also be expressed by using ?F0k0 " youni " after the polite form of a verb.
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| 8. | For example, the optative moods in Ancient Greek alternate syntactically in many subordinate clauses, depending on the tense of the main verb.
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| 9. | There is also some evidence of a distinct optative mood, which is preserved in Finnish as "-os " ( second-person singular ).
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| 10. | The optative mood, infinitives and participles are found in four tenses ( present, aorist, perfect, and future ) and all three voices.
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