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The Optative
Language:
Georgian
Feature:
The Optative
by
Nina Dobrushina
and
Johan van der Auwera
and
Valentin Goussev
Value:
Inflectional optative present
Examples
Sentence igt-1576:
k’idev didxan-s nu mo-g-šl-od-e-t šemarteba -
k’idev
again
didxan-s
long.time-
dat
nu
proh
mo-g-šl-od-e-t
prev
-you-dissipate-
pluperf
-
opt
-
pl
-es
this
šemarteba -
daring.
nom
-
May you not lose this daring for the long time yet!
References
Hewitt 1995
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