Complete Definition of "cohortative"

English

Adjective
cohortative

  1. (grammar, of a verb): inflected to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose, or consequence.

#: The w:Cohortative mood|cohortative mood is similar to the jussive mood, except that it only applies to verbs in the first person. Although the cohortative mood is absent from English, it is present in Hebrew.

Noun
cohortative (uncountable)
Category:Uncountable

  1. grammar: The cohortative mood.

Category:Tenses

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