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.

   That you come here right now is imperative.

   • 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 semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
   • Antonym: functional
4. Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.

   imperative orders

   • 1614, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

     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.

   • 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:

     The new imperative for investment is the Government's objective to secure carbon-neutral transport emissions by 2040.

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.

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