Jussive

Quick meaning: Jussive is a noun meaning (Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses.

Meaning

(Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses.

More Meanings

1. (grammar) Of or in the jussive mood.
2. (grammar, uncountable and countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.

Example Sentences

The jussive and cohortative usually convey more indirect, or more subtle, expressions of volition than the imperative does.

For example, in the Aaronide blessing, only two of the six verbs are formally jussives, yet all have the same volitional sense.

As far as the jussive goes — ignoring the very few occurrences of this in first person — it can be noted that most of the second-person jussives are in negative commands.

If, on the other hand, reference is made purely to the root, we would expect all frequentative jussives to appear with a front element, producing *mɨt′ət′ɨs instead of mɨt′ət′ɨs (19d).

Word Forms

• jussives

Synonyms for jussive

Depending on context, synonyms include apocopate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subjunctive, jocosity, jive, juice, jouncing, jocularism.

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