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 Translation for 'imperative' from English to Portuguese
ADJ   imperative | more imperative | most imperative
NOUN   an imperative | imperatives
SYNO imperative | imperative form | imperative mood | ...
imperativo {m}imperative
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Translation for 'imperative' from English to Portuguese

imperative
imperativo {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • A hypothetical imperative (German: "hypothetischer Imperativ") is originally introduced in the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant.
  • Negative imperative forms are made in the same way, but using a negated verb as the base.
  • The Skolt Sámi imperative generally takes a clause-initial position. Out of the five imperative forms (see above), those of the second person are most commonly used.
  • Swampy Cree has two types of imperatives: Immediate Imperative and Future Imperative.
  • The imperative mood was used for commands directed towards other people, and therefore only occurred in the second and third person. It used its own set of special imperative endings.

  • There are two forms of the imperative: a formal, more polite imperative and a direct, curt imperative.
  • Imperative languages such as Java provide a notion of imperative variables, which basically represent memory locations that can be written to and read from.
  • The singular imperative is the same as the first person singular, and the plural imperative is the same as the second person plural.
  • In the imperative, the endings are given as [...] for the first-person dual and [...] for the second-person dual.
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