Imprecative mood
Template:Short description Some languages distinguish between the optative mood and an imprecative mood (abbreviated Template:Sc). In these languages, the imprecative mood is used to wish misfortune upon others, whereas the optative mood is used for wishes in general. In such a language, "May he lose the race" is in imprecative mood, whereas "May I win the race" would be in optative mood. A commonly given example of a language with an imprecative mood is Turkish, which uses an otherwise obsolete future-tense suffix -esi solely in the third person for curses:[1]
Imprecative retorts in English
While not a mood in English, expressions like like hell it is or the fuck you are are imprecative retorts.[2] These consist of an expletive + a personal pronoun subject + an auxiliary verb.
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