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Definition of desiderative in English: desiderativeadjective dɪˈsɪd(ə)rətɪvdɪˈzɪd(ə)rətɪv-ˌrātiv Grammar 1(in Latin and other inflected languages) denoting a verb formed from another and expressing a desire to do the act denoted by the root verb (such as Latin esurire ‘want to eat’, from edere ‘eat’). 〔语法〕（拉丁语或其他屈折变化语言中的动词）意愿的（例如拉丁语 esurire 由 edere 而来） Example sentencesExamples - The imperative and all the indirect or oblique moods, as well as the desiderative forms and all the tenses, are expressed by means of separate words.
- This traditional interpretation had to be systematically verified for two reasons: the first was to explain the specificity of the category desiderative inside the complex verbal system of Vedic, and the second was the need to elucidate its historical links, currently claimed by most Indo-Europeanists, with other formally similar categories like the future in Old Greek and Celtic.
- Furthermore, I claim that even the advanced learners sometimes misuse the desiderative expressions when they forget to control their speech.
- An interrogative use of shall with the first person subject forms what we might call desiderative.
- 1.1 Having, expressing, or relating to desire.
（与）欲望（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - There is a desiderative state in the animal, which programmes it to pursue or avoid certain things (or, more generally, to act) in various circumstances.
- But many of the same issues arise for desiderative conceptions of the good as well, and it will be useful to discuss these at points.
- Here the idea that God does not wish for any to perish speaks only of God's desiderative will, without comment on his decretive will.
- Since each such change seems rationally required, the new desiderative profile will seem not just different from the old, but better; more rational.
- In themselves, attention, interest, vivid presence to consciousness and the like would seem to be features of our emotional and desiderative biographies.
noun dɪˈsɪd(ə)rətɪvdɪˈzɪd(ə)rətɪv-ˌrātiv Grammar A desiderative verb. 〔语法〕意愿动词 Example sentencesExamples - Verbs comprise verbal roots, but also their variations with prefix strings of preverb particles, and secondary formations for causatives, intensives and desideratives.
- One set of constructions-motion auxiliaries, desideratives, and reflexive causatives-involve linking to the internal a-subject.
- The verbs tenses are organized into four ‘systems’ (plus gerunds and infinitives, along with such creatures as intensives/frequentives, desideratives, causatives, and benedictives derived from more basic forms).
- And the data also shows that the learner misunderstands how to make the Japanese desideratives polite.
- Like causatives and desideratives, denominatives follow the inflection of thematic verbs of the Present System.
OriginMid 16th century: from late Latin desiderativus, from Latin desiderat- 'desired', from the verb desiderare (see desiderate). Definition of desiderative in US English: desiderativeadjective-ˌrātiv Grammar 1(in Latin and other inflected languages) denoting a verb formed from another and expressing a desire to do the act denoted by the root verb (such as Latin esurire ‘want to eat,’ from edere ‘eat’). 〔语法〕（拉丁语或其他屈折变化语言中的动词）意愿的（例如拉丁语 esurire 由 edere 而来） Example sentencesExamples - The imperative and all the indirect or oblique moods, as well as the desiderative forms and all the tenses, are expressed by means of separate words.
- An interrogative use of shall with the first person subject forms what we might call desiderative.
- Furthermore, I claim that even the advanced learners sometimes misuse the desiderative expressions when they forget to control their speech.
- This traditional interpretation had to be systematically verified for two reasons: the first was to explain the specificity of the category desiderative inside the complex verbal system of Vedic, and the second was the need to elucidate its historical links, currently claimed by most Indo-Europeanists, with other formally similar categories like the future in Old Greek and Celtic.
- 1.1 Having, expressing, or relating to desire.
（与）欲望（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - There is a desiderative state in the animal, which programmes it to pursue or avoid certain things (or, more generally, to act) in various circumstances.
- In themselves, attention, interest, vivid presence to consciousness and the like would seem to be features of our emotional and desiderative biographies.
- But many of the same issues arise for desiderative conceptions of the good as well, and it will be useful to discuss these at points.
- Since each such change seems rationally required, the new desiderative profile will seem not just different from the old, but better; more rational.
- Here the idea that God does not wish for any to perish speaks only of God's desiderative will, without comment on his decretive will.
noun-ˌrātiv Grammar A desiderative verb. 〔语法〕意愿动词 Example sentencesExamples - The verbs tenses are organized into four ‘systems’ (plus gerunds and infinitives, along with such creatures as intensives/frequentives, desideratives, causatives, and benedictives derived from more basic forms).
- Verbs comprise verbal roots, but also their variations with prefix strings of preverb particles, and secondary formations for causatives, intensives and desideratives.
- Like causatives and desideratives, denominatives follow the inflection of thematic verbs of the Present System.
- And the data also shows that the learner misunderstands how to make the Japanese desideratives polite.
- One set of constructions-motion auxiliaries, desideratives, and reflexive causatives-involve linking to the internal a-subject.
OriginMid 16th century: from late Latin desiderativus, from Latin desiderat- ‘desired’, from the verb desiderare (see desiderate). |