imperative mood (plural imperative moods)
- (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]:
imperative mood
- Albanian: mënyra urdhërore f
- Arabic: أَمْر (ar) f (ʔamr)
- Armenian: հրամայական եղանակ (hy) (hramayakan eġanak)
- 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 thức (命令式)
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