Desiderative Mood

Desiderative Mood

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.

Read more about Desiderative Mood:  Sanskrit, Japanese, Proto-Indo-European

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