Noun: imperative
| Singular | imperative |
| Plural | imperatives |
Sample Sentences
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The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
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Visiting Berlin is an imperative.
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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. [2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19:]
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The new imperative for investment is the Government's objective to secure carbon-neutral transport emissions by 2040. [2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:]
Nouns inflected like imperative
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Italic *en
4. Proto-Italic *en-
5. Latin in-
6. Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-
7. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o-
8. Latin *paro-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
14. Proto-Italic *-ājō
15. Proto-Italic *-āō
16. Latin -ō
17. Latin parō
18. Latin imperō
19. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
20. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
21. Latin īvus
22. Latin imperātīvusbor.
23. English imperative
24. Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.
Verbs referencing "imperative"
Finnish Nouns
imperatiivi.