imperative

See also: impérative

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• (abbreviation, grammar): imp., imper.

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/

AdjectiveEdit

imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative)

1. essential

   It is imperative that you come here right now.

2. (grammar) of, or relating to the imperative mood
3. (computing theory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
4. Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.

   imperative orders

   • Bishop Hall

     The suits of kings are imperative.

TranslationsEdit

essential

• Arabic: أَسَاسِيّ‏‎ (ar) (ʾasāsiyy), ضَرُورِيّ‏‎ (ḍarūriyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: rozkazovací n
• Dutch: noodzakelijk (nl)
• Finnish: välttämätön (fi), pakollinen (fi)
• French: impératif (fr), essentiel (fr), indispensable (fr)
• German: essenziell (de), essentiell (de), notwendig (de), unverzichtbar (de), wesentlich (de)
• Greek: επιτακτικός (el) (epitaktikós)

• Icelandic: mikilvægur (is)
• Italian: imperativo (it) m, necessario (it) m, necessaria (it) f
• Korean: 긴요한 (ginyohan), 반드 필요한 (bandeu piryohan)
• Latin: necessus, necessum
• Portuguese: essencial (pt), imperativo (pt)
• Russian: обяза́тельный (ru) (objazátelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: àithneach
• Spanish: imperativo (es) m
• Turkish: mecburi (tr), zorunlu (tr)

grammar: of, or relating to the imperative mood

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: imperatiivinen
• Portuguese: imperativo (pt)

• Russian: повели́тельный (ru) (povelítelʹnyj)
• Swedish: imperativ (sv)
• Tagalog: pautos

computing: having semantics that incorporates mutable variables

• Russian: императивный (ru) (imperativnyj)

authoritatively or absolutely directive

• Finnish: pakottava (fi)

• German: zwingend (de)

NounEdit

imperative (countable and uncountable, plural imperatives)

1. (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.

   The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.

2. (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
3. (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

   Visiting Berlin is an imperative.

   • 2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19:

     Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.

SynonymsEdit

• (grammatical mood) imperative mood
• required

Coordinate termsEdit

• (in grammar): assertoric, interrogative

Derived termsEdit

• categorical imperative
• first imperative (Latin grammar)

• moral imperative
• second imperative (Latin grammar)

TranslationsEdit

imperative mood — see imperative mood

essential action

• Dutch: must (nl) m
• Finnish: pakko (fi)
• French: impératif (fr) m
• German: Muss (de) n
• Icelandic: nauðsyn (is) f

• Italian: imperativo (it) m, necessario (it) m
• Latin: necessitas f, opus (la) n
• Portuguese: necessidade (pt) f
• Turkish: mecburiyet (tr), zorunluluk (tr)

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

imperative f pl

1. feminine plural of imperativo

AnagramsEdit

• riempivate

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LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• inperātīvē

EtymologyEdit

From imperātīvus (“commanded”), from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

AdverbEdit

imperātīvē (not comparable)

1. In an imperative manner, imperatively.

Related termsEdit

• imperābiliter
• imperāns
• imperātīvus
• imperātōr

• imperātōriē
• imperātōrius
• imperātrīx
• imperātum

• imperātus
• imperiābiliter
• imperiālis
• imperiōsē

• imperiōsus
• imperitō
• imperium
• imperō

ReferencesEdit

• imperative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imperative” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)