Is "parade" an imperative or the present tense?
The imperative mood has only 1 tense -present- and it is used under the same circumstances as in English.
When using verbs that contain infinitives ending in -er, we remove the final letter "s" from the -tu form of the present tense for the imperative, unless it is followed by the pronouns -y or -en.
One group of verbs (the ones ending in -er in present tense) has a special imperative form (generally the verb stem), but with most verbs the imperative is identical to the infinitive form.
The resulting books are how-to guides written in the first person rather than the second, in the past tense rather than the imperative.
The verb is inflected for mood (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), aspect (perfective, imperfective), voice (active, passive), tense (present, past), and person (first, second, and third, singular and plural).
A cautious and unremitting search for the intralingual and therewith interlingual semantic invariants in the correlations of such grammatical categories as, for example, verbal aspects, tenses, voices, and moods becomes indeed an imperative and perfectly attainable goal in present-day linguistic science.
Classical Mongolian has 5 finite verb forms (3 present tenses and 2 pasts, the meanings of which remain under study); 10 converbs and 6 verbal nouns, distinguished as to relative tense or grammatical aspect; and 7 or 8 "imperative" forms.
