AliceIf you are on your path to learning French, you will find the necessity of imperatives in the language yourself. The best way to start learning about imperative in french is to go through the answers to some frequently asked questions about imperatives as follows.
What can an imperative express?
You may know that an imperative, in any language, will represent a command of any type. However, the various uses of these imperatives in French are as follows,
Command – to order someone to do something
Advice – to suggest someone do something
Request – to seek help from someone
Inclusion – to initiate a group task
What are the various forms of French imperatives?
You can divide the imperatives into various forms in each language. As there is a combination of two words for the second person itself, there are three forms of imperatives in total in French as follows.
Tu – you form (second person)
Vous – you form (second person)
Nous – we form (plural or inclusion)
Mostly, the first two forms will remain the same in terms of pronunciation and spelling.
What to include when writing the imperative forms in the negative sense in French?
As you cannot use only the positive imperatives all the time, French allows you to go for negative sentences with imperatives by simply adding “Ne” before the phrase and “pas” after the imperative. All other rules of the imperative in french; will remain the same. So, you need not put any extra effort to learn and byheart the negative forms of imperative.
What is the rule of using imperatives with one object pronoun?
You should keep in mind that there should be a hyphen followed by the imperative which will then be followed by the object pronoun. If there is more than one object pronoun to be used, you should simply add the hyphens.
