English

Adjective

propositive ‎(not comparable)

1. making, or concerned with, propositions or suggestions
2. (medicine, of a movement) intentional
3. (linguistics, Korean language) a specific verb form in the Korean language, also sometimes called the hortative or subjunctive assertive.
   • 1950, Sang Soon Yun, Introduction to Spoken Korean, page 250:

     "This auxiliary verb ma-l- occurs only in the imperative, propositive and gerund forms."

   • 1997, Young-joo Kim, "The Acquisition of Korean," in The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 417:

     "Imperative and propositive (ie, 'let us V type) sentences were excluded. "

   • 2000, Iksop Lee and Samuel Robert Ramsey, The Korean Language, page 101:

     "First, adjectives are distinguished from verbs in that they do not have imperative or propositive forms."

Related terms

• proposition
• propositional

See also

• Appendix:Korean parts of speech

Italian

Adjective

propositive

1. Feminine plural form of propositivo

Anagrams

• prepositivo