OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1619

imperative

/ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
imperativo
A verb in the imperative mood.
imperativo
An essential action, a must: something which is 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 fid…
Visiting Berlin is an imperative.