Alternativa stavningar

Synonymer

Uttal

  • US:
    • IPA: /ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/

Förkortningar

Översättning
Adjektiv
1.zorunlu
2.mecburi
Substantiv
3.zorunluluk
4.mecburiyet

Definitioner

Adjektiv

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

Substantiv

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

Exempel

  • It is imperative that you come here right now.
  • imperative orders
  • The suits of kings are imperative.
  • The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
  • Visiting Berlin is an imperative.
  • 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.

Böjningsformer

Pluralimperatives
Komparativmore imperative
Superlativmost imperative