Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Imprecative Mood

Definition: 

Imprecative mood is a volitive mood that signals the speaker's wish that an unfavorable proposition will come about.

Examples: 

(Turkish)

The suffix -esi indicates imprecative mood, as in the following construction (diacritical markings are not reproduced here):

gor -mi -y -esi
see -NEGATIVE -he -IMPRECATIVE
‘May he not see!’
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