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In linguistics, a desiderative (abbreviated DESI or DES) form is one that has the meaning of "wanting to X". Desiderative forms are often verbs, derived from a more basic verb through a process of morphological derivation. Desiderative mood is a kind of volitive mood.

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Desiderative mood

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process of morphological derivation. Desiderative mood is a kind of volitive mood. In Sanskrit, the desiderative is formed through the suffixing of /sa/...

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Subjunctive mood

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imperative mood (emir kipi), the necessitative mood (gereklilik kipi), the optative mood (istek kipi), desiderative mood (dilek kipi), conditional mood (şart...

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Optative mood

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superset of the cohortative mood and is closely related to the subjunctive mood but is distinct from the desiderative mood. English has no morphological...

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Irrealis mood

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mile, you will see it". Whereas the optative expresses hopes, the desiderative mood expresses wishes and desires. Desires are what we want to be the case;...

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Terminative case

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particle まで (made) acts like a terminative case. Cessative aspect Desiderative mood List of grammatical cases Anhava, Jaakko (2015). "Criteria For Case...

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Japanese conjugation

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past tense, volition, passive voice, causation, imperative and conditional mood, and ability. There are also special forms for conjunction with other verbs...

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List of glossing abbreviations

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element' and TAM 'tense–aspect–mood element' (also NG number–gender, PN person–number, TA tense–aspect, TAME tense–aspect–mood–evidential) etc. These are...

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Volitive modality

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moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express volitive modality. Examples are the optative, desiderative and imprecative moods....

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Mari language

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existing in more grammatical tenses and moods. It has its own form in the present indicative, imperative and desiderative, and in the first preterite indicative...

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Yukulta language

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subject. There are three moods: indicative, imperative and desiderative. There is a further distinction within the imperative mood between imperative and...

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Wayuu language

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imperfective -iraa, and the desiderative -ee. For example, from the root kache ("hang"), one can derive the desiderative a-kache-r-ee-waa "to want to...

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Misantla Totonac

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Distributive /-kuhu/ - Completive /t͡sa̰a̰-/ - Preceding/Just /saa-/ - Desiderative /-nan/ - Become X /as-/ - Interrogative Nouns may be inflected for number...

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Erzya language

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past suffixes) conditional-conjunctive (-ińd́eŕa-v(V)ĺ + past suffixes) desiderative (-ikseĺ + past suffixes) optative (zo + present suffixes) imperative...

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Nukak language

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(continuous, immediate); tense (past, present, future) and mood (imperative, desiderative, interrogative). For example: Past -nábé Future -nátu' dubitative...

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Guarani dialects

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specifically in third person or plural morphemes. The morpheme for desiderative inflection, ‘ta-’. As in the other examples mentioned prior, this morpheme...

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Sanskrit verbs

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Furthermore, Sanskrit has so-called Secondary conjugations: Passive Intensive Desiderative Causative Denominative The non-finite forms are: Participles Infinitive...

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Yugambeh language

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obstruent. 'N' stands for a homorganic nasals. #The comitative, purposive, desiderative, ablative and aversive suffixes are preceded by -bah on animate nouns...

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Vedic Sanskrit grammar

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special perfect endings. The periphrastic perfect is used with causative, desiderative, denominative and roots with prosodic long anlauted vowel (except a/ā)...

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Udmurt grammar

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(preterite II, third person singular) with a personal possessive suffix. The desiderative modal expresses desire. The verb потынын, 'to want' is inflected in the...

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Hurrian language

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The potential form is also occasionally used to express a wish. The desiderative form is used to express an urgent request. It is also only found in the...

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Sanskrit grammar

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Furthermore, Sanskrit has so-called Secondary conjugations: Passive Intensive Desiderative Causative Denominative The non-finite forms are: Participles Infinitive...

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Urartian language

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example of its use is alu-šə tu-l-(e)yə "whoever destroys it". 3. A desiderative, which may express the wish of either the speaker or the agent, is expressed...

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Enets language

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There are three declensions, the main (non-possessive), possessive and desiderative declensions, and seven cases in Enets: the nominative, genitive, accusative...

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Manchu language

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verb takes participial, converbal and verbal suffixes, which also express mood and aspect. It has been argued that the aspect contrast to some extent has...

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Balancing and deranking

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dependent event, which often leads in purpose, desiderative and manipulative clauses to the use of moods that cannot be used in independent clauses. Small...

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Chuvash language

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a second desiderative future expressing a wish and using the converb in -сан (эпĕ ҫĕнтерсен-ччĕ, 'I wish I'd win'), another desiderative form expressing...

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