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  • 41Optative mood — The optative mood (abbreviated opt) is a grammatical mood that indicates a wish or hope. It is similar to the cohortative mood, and closely related to the subjunctive mood. Ancient Greek, Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Kurdish, Old Prussian,… …

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  • 42Pluperfect — The pluperfect (from Latin plus quam perfectum more than perfect), also called past perfect in English, is a grammatical combination of past tense with the perfect, itself a combination of tense and aspect, that exists in most Indo European… …

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  • 43Latin grammar — The grammar of Latin, like that of other ancient Indo European languages, is highly inflected, which allows for a large degree of flexibility when choosing word order. In Latin there are five declensions of nouns and four conjugations of verbs.… …

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  • 44Balkan sprachbund — The Balkan sprachbund or linguistic area is the ensemble of areal features similarity in grammar, syntax, vocabulary and phonology among languages of the Balkans, which belong to various branches of Indo European, such as Slavic, Greek, Romance… …

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  • 45Georgian grammar — The Georgian language belongs to the South Caucasian or Kartvelian family. Some of its characteristics are akin to those of Slavic languages such as its system of verbal aspect, but Georgian grammar is remarkably different from Indo European… …

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  • 46Pluperfect tense — The pluperfect tense (from Latin plus quam perfectum more than perfect), also called past perfect in English, is a perfective tense that exists in most Indo European languages, used to refer to an event that has completed before another past… …

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  • 47T-rules — The T(ea) rules ( T(hee) regels ) are a set of rules used in Dutch language to determine whether the second person singular/plural and the first and third person singular of a verb end in t or not. These rules must not be confused with the t… …

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  • 48Cohortative mood — The cohortative mood (also known as Intentional ; cohortative subjunctive is also synonymous with hortatory subjunctive ) is a grammatical mood, used to express plea, insistence, imploring, self encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command,… …

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  • 49subjunctives —    The subjunctive, one of the four moods of verbs, has been slipping from use in English for decades. It is the mood seen in sentences like Although he die now, his name will live forever. Though once very common, it scarcely features in English …

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  • 50enter — verb (entered; entering) Etymology: Middle English entren, from Anglo French entrer, from Latin intrare, from intra within; akin to Latin inter between more at inter Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. to go or come in 2. to come or gain… …

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