Editing Manchu language (section)

===== Imperative =====
The pure stem forms the imperative: ''ala'' "Report!", ''te'' "Sit down!", ''wa'' "Kill!"<ref>Gorelova 2002, 296f.; Haenisch 1986, 57; Möllendorff 1892, 9.</ref>

There is also a stronger form of command in ''-kini'', which is directed at a person of lower rank and which is used also as an optative or impersonal imperative of the third person: ''arakini'' "Let him write!", ''okini'' "Let it be so!", ''alakini'' "Let it be reported!", "Let him report!", ''genekini'' "Let him go!“. It may be used to command another person to cause a third person to do something.

Another, milder form of command is formed with the ending ''-cina'' or ''-kina'', which is used in a concessive sense as well:<ref>Gorelova 2002, 301f.; Möllendorff 1892, 9.</ref> ''amasi bucina'' "Come on / please, give it back!"; ''alacina'', ''alakina'' "Speak (if you want to)" or "Please speak!"; ''aracina'' "Let him write (if he wants to)". It appears to be derived from the optative form (on which see below) and the interrogative particle ''-na''.

A prohibitative form (corresponding to Chinese ''mò'' {{lang|zh-Hani|莫}}) is constructed from the imperfect converb preceded by ''ume'' : ''ume genere'' "Don't go!“, ''ume fonjire'' "Don't ask!"<ref name="Möllendorff 1892, 10">Möllendorff 1892, 10.</ref>

Certain verbs have irregular imperative forms: ''baimbi'' "seek", "request" – ''baisu''; ''bimbi'' "be present", "remain" – ''bisu''; ''jembi'' "eat" – ''jefu''; ''-njimbi'' "come in order to ..." – ''-nju''; ''ombi'' "be, become" – ''osu.''<ref>Haenisch 1986, 60; Möllendorff 1892, 10.</ref>