How To Write Commands In Spanish

When using formal commands be sure to use the correct form depending on whether youre speaking to one person or multiple people.

How to write commands in spanish. No saquen sus libros. Lets see how that looks. In spanish grammar lingo a stem is the verb form youre left with if you take the ar er or ir away from the end of an infinitive. Command or imperative forms tell someone to do or not to do something.

Then drop the o ending. The singular form is for one person and the plural is for more than one person. You speak more slowly. Start with the yo form of the present indicative.

The imperative form of verbs used for giving commands is one of the more unusual in spanish. Creating the plural form is quite simple. Affirmative and negative usted and ustedes commands are formed by using the present tense yo form as the stem dropping the o and adding the appropriate ending. The stem of comprar is compr.

Forming the informal you plural command. As a distinctive conjugation it exists only with tu and vosotros in the familiar second person. Simply precede the subjunctive form of the verb with no and you have a negative command. The good news is that spanish negative commands use the exact same forms.

Negative commands with tu informal second person singular. Do not take out your books. When forming the positive informal plural you or vosotros commands for regular verbs you drop the r from the infinitive form and add d as you can see in the following examples. Finally add the following endings.

Different conjugations are sometimes used in the affirmative do something and negative dont. Habla tu mas lentamente. Forming commands with er and ir verbs for verbs that end in er and ir add the third person singular ending e to the stem. Just add n to the end of the singular form.

Be sure to note that the tu commands use the usted form not the tu form.