Editing Finnish grammar (section)

====Optative====
The optative mood is an archaic or poetic variant of the imperative mood that expresses hopes or wishes. It is not used in normal language. Although it in principle has all forms, it is encountered mainly in the 2nd person singular forms ''-:os''/''-:ös'' (replacement of /k/ with the [[gemination]] of the previous consonant).

:{| class="wikitable"
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|+ Optative
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! Finnish !! English
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| {{lang|fi|ollos}} || if only/that/would you were
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| {{lang|fi|ollos tervehditty}} || may you be greeted
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| {{lang|fi|juossos}} || may you run
|-
| {{lang|fi|käyttäös}} || may you use
|}

Optatives are rare even in original archaic poems, and the forms used to express the optative are different from standard Finnish. An example of a true optative is ''ruvetkommas tappelohon'' "let's go and start fighting". However, when compiling the [[Kalevala]], Elias Lönnrot tripled the number of optatives, by changing these dialectal forms in the original poems to the standard optative.<ref>https://journal.fi/virittaja/article/download/36182/31643/91848</ref>