Meanings
adjectiveboulomaic (not comparable)
- not comparableExpressing a wish or desire.
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.
2009, Heiko Narrog, Modality in Japanese, page 225
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