Lesson 4 | Imperatives
[1] The Imperative Mood
Congratulations! You have made it to the final lesson on Greek verbs. (Can you believe it?!) With the imperative mood, you have one last ending pattern to learn. The good news is, the pattern is short and quite consistent. But before we look at the imperative forms, let’s first consider what the imperative mood itself communicates.
At the most basic level, the imperative is the mood of command. Do this! However, you will discover that the imperative mood can do more than bark orders. In certain contexts an imperative can be weakened to a request. Still, a Greek imperative will always be, in some way, calling someone to engage their will in relation to the action of the verb.¹
