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Intentional

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl

Definitions

  1. Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
  2. The cohortative mood as found in Hebrew (terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded), and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.

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Examples

“Tariana distinguishes interrogative and imperative moods. Interrogative mood is marked through a separate⟳ set⟳ of evidentials fused with tense (see⟳ §14.2). Imperatives are discussed in §16.1. Modalities include⟳: frustrative (§16.2), intentional (§16.3), apprehensive (§16.4), uncertainty (§16.5), conditional (§16.6), purposive (§16.7) and counter-expectation (§16.8). […] The intentional is marked with the clitic -kasu. It can occur⟳ with any group of verbs, marking imminent action, as in 16.60 and intention, as in 16.61.”

CEFR level

C2
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