imperativeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/

形容詞

imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative)

1. Essential; crucial; extremely important.

   It is imperative that you come here right now.

   • 2019, Con Man Games; SmashGames, quoting Felix, Kindergarten 2, SmashGames:

     Give this document to Ozzy. It's imperative that he reads and understands it. Got it?

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

   • (Can we date this quote by Bishop Hall かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The suits of kings are imperative.

名詞

imperative (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

同意語

• (grammatical mood) imperative mood
• required

等位語

• (in grammar): assertoric, interrogative

派生語

Latin

別の表記

• inperātīvē

語源

From imperātīvus (“commanded”), from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

副詞

imperātīvē (not comparable)

1. In an imperative manner, imperatively.

関連する語

参照

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