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{{Short description|Grammatical mood}}
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The '''imperative mood''' is a [[grammatical mood]] that forms a command or request.

The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed. It is usually found only in the present tense, second person.  They are sometimes called ''directives'', as they include a feature that encodes directive force, and another feature that encodes modality of unrealized interpretation.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2015-0039/html?lang=en | doi=10.1515/ling-2015-0039 | title=When terminology matters: The imperative as a comparative concept | year=2016 | last1=Jary | first1=Mark | last2=Kissine | first2=Mikhail | journal=Linguistics | volume=54 | s2cid=147583469 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9913465/ | title=The structure and interpretation of imperatives: Mood and force in universal grammar | date=January 1998 | pages=1–237 | last1=Han | first1=Chung-hye }}</ref>

An example of a [[verb]] used in the imperative mood is the [[English grammar|English]] phrase "Go." Such imperatives imply a [[grammatical person|second-person]] subject (''you''), but some other languages also have first- and third-person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's (do something)" or "let them (do something)" (the forms may alternatively be called [[cohortative]] and [[jussive]]).

Imperative mood can be denoted by the [[list of glossing abbreviations|glossing abbreviation]] {{sc|'''imp'''}}. It is one of the [[irrealis mood]]s.