Some scholars consider that both jussive and cohortative mood are conveyed by the form of the imperfect. |
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Basically, in the Arabic jussive all the indicative mood-signs are deleted. |
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This line opens with a jussive indicating that what has occurred fulfils God's pleasure. |
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The usage of the indicative, subjunctive, and jussive moods in Classical Arabic is almost completely controlled by syntactic context. |
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The jussive, similarly to the imperative, expresses orders, commands, exhortations, but particularly to a third person not present. |
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Latin is an example where the jussive is simply about certain specific uses of the subjunctive. |
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Arabic, however, is an example of a language with distinct subjunctive, imperative and jussive conjugations. |
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The jussive and cohortative usually convey more indirect, or more subtle, expressions of volition than the imperative does. |
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Common irrealis moods are the imperative, the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, the jussive, and the potential. |
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Volitive clauses are typically negated with the negative mood Adjunct ʾal, which is used with the jussive and cohortative forms in the third and first persons respectively. |
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Furthermore, Gianto also notes that these same degrees of probability may be realized in other cases by clauses with imperative, jussive and perfect verb forms. |
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The volitive moods are the imperative, jussive, and cohortative. |
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