Cohortative

The cohortative (from Latin cohortatio , encouragement ' ) denotes the admonishing, encouraging or suggestive form of a verb . Other names are exhortative or propositive . In German, for example, a paraphrase with let in first position + infinitive takes on this function: "Let's go".

While in the German example sentence the meaningful verb is in the infinitive, in other languages, such as Korean , the cohortative can be expressed by a modification of the verb in question. The above-mentioned German example in Korean could be as follows: gamnida (갑니다) "(We) go" is modified in the cohortative to gapsida (갑시다) "Let (t) us go!".

In the Hebrew language (literary or biblical, hardly used in everyday language) the cohortative for the first person singular or plural is expressed by adding a stressed -a (-ה) to the preformative form of the finite verb (ex. : אשיר aschir , German 'I will sing' andאשירה aschira , German 'I want to sing' ).

See also

• Adhortative
• Imperative mode
• Jussiv
• Optional

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dorothea Hoppmann: Introduction to the Korean language . Helmut Buske, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87548-339-0 , p. 6.
2. ↑ Ernst Jenni: Textbook of the Hebrew Language of the Old Testament. 4th edition. Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7965-1230-8 , p. 108.