imperative mood

English

Noun

imperative mood (plural imperative moods)

1. (grammar) The grammatical mood generally expressing a command, though also used to express a request or permission.
   • 1591, Shakespeare, King Henry VI, part 1:

     Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter: Summon their general unto the wall.

   • 1879, Kentucky Public Documents‎^[1]:

     According to the definition of the imperative, this mood can express nothing but a command. Yet verbs of imperative form may also express entreaty or permission, as may, indeed, the indicative and the generally so-called potential.

Synonyms

• imperative
• imperative mode

Translations

imperative mood

• Albanian: mënyra urdhërore f
• Arabic: أَمْر‎ (ar) f (ʾamr)
• Armenian: հրամայական եղանակ (hy) (hramayakan ełanak)
• Belarusian: зага́дны лад m (zahádny lad)
• Bulgarian: повели́телно наклоне́ние n (povelítelno naklonénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祈使語氣, 祈使语气 (qíshǐ yǔqì)

• Czech: rozkazovací způsob m, imperativ (cs) m
• Danish: bydeform c
• Dutch: gebiedende wijs (nl) m, imperatief (nl) m, imperativus (nl)
• Estonian: käskiv
• Faroese: boðsháttur m
• Finnish: imperatiivi (fi), käskytapa (fi) (dated)
• French: impératif (fr) m
• German: Imperativ (de) m, Befehlsform (de) f
• Greek: προστακτική (el) f (prostaktikí)

  Ancient: προστακτική f (prostaktikḗ)

• Hungarian: felszólító mód (hu), imperativusz
• Icelandic: boðháttur (is) m, bh. m
• Italian: imperativo (it) m
• Japanese: 命令法 (ja) (めいれいほう, meireihō)
• Khmer: អាណត្តិ (km) (ʼaanat)
• Korean: 명령법 (ko) (myeongnyeongbeop)
• Latin: (modus) imperativus m

• Latvian: pavēles izteiksme f, pavēle f
• Lithuanian: liepiamoji nuosaka (lt) f
• Macedonian: заповеден начин m (zapoveden način), императив m (imperativ)
• Maori: tūhau
• Old English: bebēodendlīċ ġemet n
• Old French: imperatif m
• Persian: امری‎ (fa) (amri)
• Polish: tryb rozkazujący (pl) m, rozkaźnik m, imperatiwus m, imperativus (pl) m
• Portuguese: imperativo (pt) m
• Romanian: mod imperativ (ro) n, imperativ (ro) n
• Russian: повели́тельное наклоне́ние (ru) n (povelítelʹnoje naklonénije), императи́в (ru) m (imperatív)
• Scottish Gaelic: modh àithneach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: и̏мператӣв m

  Roman: ȉmperatīv (sh) m

• Slovak: rozkazovací spôsob m, imperatív m
• Slovene: velelnik m
• Spanish: modo imperativo (es) m
• Swedish: imperativ (sv) n
• Tagalog: panaganong pautos
• Tibetan: སྐུལ་ཚིགས (skul tshigs)
• Turkish: emir kipi (tr)
• Ukrainian: наказо́вий спо́сіб (uk) m (nakazóvyj spósib)
• Vietnamese: mệnh lệnh cách (命令格)

See also

• Thesaurus:grammatical mood