Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Verb imperative forms/reply (3)

That was my intention, actually. I don't think imperative forms are special enough to warrant having a category of their own, especially not when we don't have (and shouldn't have) categories for all the other forms. Could you imagine what a nightmare it would be to have a category for every inflected form in every language? Imperatives are not like, say, participles, which are not quite like regular verb forms because they inflect themselves and therefore are somewhat more like lemmas (the term I've seen used on Wiktionary is "sublemma").