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noun 
  1. (uncountable) (grammar) The verbal mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same form as that of its second person ("you") present tense.
The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the .
  1. (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
Visiting Berlin is an .
Translations: 
  • Dutch: must
  • French: impératif
  • German: Muss
  • Italian: imperativo , necessario
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: imperativo
adjective 
  1. essential
It is imperative that you come here right now.
  1. (comptheory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: noodzakelijk
  • German: essenziell, essentiell, notwendig unverzichtbar, wesentlich
  • Italian: imperativo , necessario , necessaria,
    (trans-mid)

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