Formal Commands! Ten-Hut! In this presentation, you will learn about making commands in Spanish.

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Formal Commands!Ten-Hut! In this
presentation, you will learn about making
commands in Spanish.
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Commands in English

• are pretty easy. You just use a base verb form
  (without a subject, since its always you) to
  tell people what they should do
• Stand up!
• Sit down!
• Do your homework!
• Take out the garbage!
• Be quiet!

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Commands in English

• and what they shouldnt do
• Dont write in your books!
• Dont speak English in Spanish class!
• Dont be silly!

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Lets look at a few examples!

• Aproveche la venta-
• liquidacion.!

• Ahorre con las gangas!

• No olvide!

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Las Formas de los mandatos de los verbos de AR

• Hable despacio, por favor.
• The speaker is talking to one person.
• Can you figure out how we got the form hable?
• Take the yo form of the present HABLO
• Drop the o HABL-
• Hablar is an AR verb, so add E to form the
  command HABLE

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Las Formas de los mandatos de los verbos de ER y
IR

• Repita, por favor.
• The speaker is talking to one person.
• Can you figure out how we got the form repita?
• Take the yo form of the present REPITO
• Drop the o REPIT-
• Repetir is an IR verb, so add A to form the
  command REPITA

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• Opposite vowels
• Think of the verb adding the opposite vowel
• AR verbs add an E.
• ER IR verbs add an A.

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Uds. mandatos

• Uds
• Ahorren con las rebajas!
• Right! Just add an N to the command form when
  you are talking to more than one person.

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Irregulares

• Sea, esté, dé, sepa, vaya
• These five verbs are very irregular for a good
  reason
• Ser gt yo soy Sea!
• Estar gt yo estoy Este!
• Dar gt yo doy De!
• Saber gt yo sé Sepa!
• Ir gt yo voy Vaya!
• The yo form does not end in an o, so there is no
  o to drop when forming the command form.