Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Meeting The Deku Tree/Grammar

The Informal Imperative

We seen earlier an imperative command using ～なさい. Today, we will see another, much stonger imperative.

For Group 1 verbs (う　Verbs), change the verb to base 4 (ends in an　え sound, just like ～ば):

• 書く ⇔　　書け
• 読む　⇔　　　読め
• 死ぬ ⇔　　死ね　

For Group 2 verbs (る verbs), change the verb to base 5 (ends in an お sound)

• 食べる ⇔ 食べろ
• 寝る ⇔　寝ろ

Note: する and　くる become　しろ and　こい

It is possible you won't here this used in real life, and only seen in games/mangas/animes, etc.

We seen this type of imperative in one sentence:

• 妖精ナビィ…リンクの力となれ…