There is also an optative mood used in certain dialects.

It had the optative mood, and where is it today?

I'm rather in an optative mood myself this evening.

It is the one of optative mood forms, which survived in Lithuanian language.

In the Germanic languages, subjunctives are also usually formed from old optative mood.

The optative mood can also be expressed by using ように after the polite form of a verb.

As such the subjunctive fulfills the function of what is known as the optative mood in some other languages.

Wappo also includes pre-verbal desiderative and optative mood particles.

Nai is used for the optative mood:

Some also preserve an optative mood that describes events that are wished for or hoped for but not factual.

The optative mood expresses hopes, wishes or commands and has other uses that may overlap with the subjunctive mood.

In Romanian, the conditional and optative moods have identical forms, thus being commonly referred to as the optative-conditional mood.

(The optative mood II, periphrastic, based on the conditional mood)

The optative mood (having the 3rd person only, sometimes treated as the 3rd person of the imperative mood)

The optative mood is used in a subordinate clause that is governed by a past tense verb (secondary sequence).

There were three moods: indicative, subjunctive (developed from the PIE optative mood) and imperative.

The optative mood (called the subjunctive in some grammars) in Armenian is identical in both dialects.

Optative mood is expressed by the addition of the suffix -ni to Conjugations I and II.

The optative mood is an archaic or poetic variant of the imperative mood that expresses hopes or wishes.

In these languages, the imprecative mood is used to wish misfortune upon others, whereas the optative mood is used for wishes in general.

In Sykes's words, "We deprecated the Imperative, preferring the Subjunctive, even the wistful Optative mood."

For example, the subjunctive and optative moods in Ancient Greek alternate syntactically in many subordinate clauses, depending on the tense of the main verb.

In such a language, "May he lose the race" is in imprecative mood, whereas "May I win the race" would be in optative mood.

Hittite lacks some features of the other Indo-European languages, such as a distinction between masculine and feminine grammatical gender, subjunctive and optative moods, and aspect.

All tenses could be conjugated in the subjunctive and optative moods, in contrast to Classical Sanskrit, with no subjunctive and only a present optative.