Verb imperative forms

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua

I don't know the answer to that, the category was already in existence. If you want to record imperatives as both verb forms and verb imperative forms, you can use head|nb|verb form, then {{imperative of| ; however there is an aesthetic problem with that template, as the wording is "Imperative of" instead of "imperative of". Can that be altered? At the moment you are emptying the verb imperatives file.

Donnanz (talk)09:10, 11 July 2014

That was my intention, actually. I don't think imperative forms are special enough to warrant having a category of their own, especially not when we don't have (and shouldn't have) categories for all the other forms. Could you imagine what a nightmare it would be to have a category for every inflected form in every language? Imperatives are not like, say, participles, which are not quite like regular verb forms because they inflect themselves and therefore are somewhat more like lemmas (the term I've seen used on Wiktionary is "sublemma").

CodeCat09:25, 11 July 2014

Hmm, as long as they are still identified as imperatives. Norwegian is not alone, you will find a file for Danish verb imperative forms with 604 entries currently.

Donnanz (talk)09:40, 11 July 2014

Of course, the definitions in the entry won't change. I'm just removing the category.

CodeCat11:29, 11 July 2014

OK, good luck; you will find a number of files elsewhere, some are virtually empty. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Verb_imperative_forms_by_language

Donnanz (talk)11:35, 11 July 2014