imperative

See also: impérative

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

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}, {반드시 필요한}}
• 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)

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

Derived termsEdit

• categorical imperative
• first imperative (Latin grammar)

• moral imperative
• second imperative (Latin grammar)

Coordinate termsEdit

• (in grammar): assertoric, interrogative

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 & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imperative in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.