Definition
Imprecative mood is a volitive mood that signals the speaker's wish that an unfavorable proposition will come about.
Examples
(Turkish)
The suffix -esi indicates imprecative mood, as in the following construction (diacritical markings are not reproduced here):
gor -mi -y -esi
see -NEGATIVE -he -IMPRECATIVE
‘May he not see!’
Sources 2
- Lewis 1967, 115
- Sadock and Zwicky 1985, 163