Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Hebrew grammar, noting exhortation or encouragement.
- noun The cohortative tense.
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- adjective grammar, of a verb Inflected to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose, or consequence.
- noun grammar The cohortative
mood .
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Examples
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A certain kind of fictionalist might claim that the real meaning of “Stealing is wrong” should be rendered in the cohortative mood (which in English is not grammatically distinguished from imperative): “Let's pretend that stealing is wrong.”
Moral Anti-Realism Joyce, Richard 2007
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The double cohortative lends an urgency to his words, that make it appear that he is eager to receive the blessing.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Nedhe'ah is cohortative (K.S. 198 b) and really stronger than our translation can readily reproduce, viz.,
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Wa'adhabberah is the emphatic cohortative, "would that I might," called also the yaqtul gravatum (K.S. 198 b).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The jussive (tehi) is followed by the cohortative nikhrethah (K.S. 364 g).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Note also how the imperative is followed by the cohortative in the last two verbs (K.S. 364n; G.K. 108 d).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Formally, this is not far from the truth, but it is generally recognized now that there are actually three different PCs: the imperfect (PC1), the preterite (PC2) and the jussive-cohortative (PC3).
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