Volitive modality

Volitive modality (abbreviated ) is a linguistic modality that indicates the desires, wishes or fears of the speaker. It is classified as a subcategory of deontic modality.
Realisation in speech.
Volitive moods are a category of grammatical moods that are used to express volitive modality. Examples are the optative, desiderative and imprecative moods.
However, many languages (like English) have other ways to express volitive modality, for example modal verbs (""Wish" that you were here!", ""May" he live forever!").
The "volitive" in Esperanto is really a generic deontic mood, expressing commands as well as will, desire, and purpose. It is formed by adding a -u to the verb stem.