boulomaic

English

Adjective

boulomaic (not comparable)

1. Expressing a wish or desire.
   • 2009, Heiko Narrog, Modality in Japanese, page 225:

     In fact, only the dynamic, the boulomaic and the mood markers behave fairly uniformly. With the other modal categories it is impossible (or would be very inaccurate) to assign them to a specific position or layer as a whole.

Coordinate terms

• epistemic