Future

Second vs. third person in future imperative for a general rule or maxim

Second vs. third person in future imperative for a general rule or maxim
  1. What is a second person imperative?
  2. What is an example of a future imperative in Latin?
  3. What is future imperative?

What is a second person imperative?

Second-person imperatives (used for ordering or requesting performance directly from the person being addressed) are most common, but some languages also have imperative forms for the first and third persons (alternatively called cohortative and jussive respectively).

What is an example of a future imperative in Latin?

In a sense, English imperatives are future imperatives because the person giving the order is asking that something be done in the near or distant future. Memento 'Remember! ' is the future imperative of the verb memini 'to remember'. Esto 'be' is another relatively common Latin future imperative.

What is future imperative?

Future imperatives have two main uses; as before with the uses of present commands, the syntax is identical, and only the meaning is different: The command is meant to be fulfilled sometime in the future. The command serves as a law, general rule, recipe, maxim, etc.

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