18.2 Volitional Forms Introduction

Volitional conjugations express someone’s will (their volition)

• Command or permission
• Wish or desire
• Purpose
• Occasionally, used to indicate a result (even if that result was not intended)
• The most common volitional form is the Imperative (Parsing code: M)
  • “Study!”
  • 2nd person
• The Jussive (J) is the 3rd person volitional form
  • “May he study” or “she should study”
  • 2nd person jussives exist (“you should study”)
• The Cohortative (C) is the 1st person volitional form
  • “Let us study”
  • “I shall run!”