Optative (*sattamī*)

Optative (sattamī)

Kaccāyana 416. anumati-parikapp’atthesu sattamī.

“When the meaning is consent or possibility, optative”

Please conjugate the word gacchati in the optative active voice.

Let’s look at the optative in the reflexive voice and passive voice.

(Theory) How is the reflexive formed? How is the passive formed?

Optative Attanopada “could tame oneself”
(√dam + a > dama)

	s	pl
3 paṭhama	dametha	dameraṃ11
2 majjhima	dametho	dameyyāvho
1 uttama	dameyyaṃ	dameyyāmhe damemase

The forms shown in italics here and further in the conjugation tables only exist in grammar books.

Optative Passive Attanopada “could be led (by oneself)”
(√nī + ya > nīya)

	s	pl
3 paṭhama	nīyetha	nīyeraṃ
2 majjhima	nīyetho	nīyeyyāvho
1 uttama	nīyeyyaṃ	nīyeyyāmhe nīyemase

A practical example of the optative attanopada:

sace labhetha nipakaṃ sahāyaṃ (DHP328)

if one should find a wise companion …