imperatywem

Imperatywem is the instrumental case form of the Polish noun imperatyw, a term used in linguistics to denote the imperative mood. The imperative mood (tryb rozkazujący) is the grammatical category used to express commands, requests, or exhortations. In Polish, imperatywy are most commonly realized in verb forms of the second person singular or plural, while polite requests may be phrased with proszę and an infinitive.

In scholarly writing, imperatyw refers to the mood itself as a linguistic category. Imperatywem, as the instrumental form, appears when grammars discuss the mood as an object of description or analysis, or when constructing phrases that describe linguistic usage, for example in phrases like w imperatywie (in the imperative) or imperatywem jako pojęciem (as a concept of the imperative).

Morphology-wise, imperatyw declines like other masculine nouns of its type. The instrumental singular form is imperatywem, and the instrumental plural is imperatywami. The term is mainly found in linguistic discussions rather than in everyday speech, and it serves as a technical reference to the category rather than a form used in ordinary dialogue.

See also: tryb rozkazujący, imperatyw (grammatical mood), Polish grammar.