Los Mandatos Informales To form the informal (tú) commands you usually use the third person singular (él, ella) of the Present tense: hablarhabla comercome.

Los Mandatos Informales

To form the informal (tú) commands you usually use the third person singular (él, ella) of the Present tense:

hablar habla

comer come

escribir escribe

Verbs that have a stem-change in the Present tense normally have the same change in the Informal, affirmative command:

Raúl, close the window! Raúl, ¡cierra la ventana!

Rosa, continue straight ahead! Rosa, ¡sigue derecho!

Ana, fry the eggs! Ana, fríe los huevos!

Some verbs have irregular informal, affirmative commands:

decir diir veser sésalir salhacer haztener tenvenir venponer pon

Tell the truth, Rosa!¡Di la verdad, Rosa!

Go home, Beto!¡Ve a casa, Beto!

Ana, leave now!¡Ana, sal ahora!

Be careful, Elena!¡Ten cuidado, Elena!

Come here, Luís!¡Ven aquí, Luís!

Object pronouns and reflexive pronouns are attached to the end of affirmative, informal commands; but add an accent to any command of more than one syllable.

Tell me the truth! ¡dime la verdad!Write it (letter) now. ¡escríbela ahora!Do it! ¡hazlo!Sit down! ¡siéntate!Stand up! ¡levántate!Give me it (money)! ¡dámelo!Tell it (answer) to us! ¡dínosla!

To form the negative, informal commands use the YO form of the Present tense, drop the ‘o’, and, for –AR verbs add ‘es’; for –ER and –IR verbs add ‘as’, but watch out for spelling changes :

hablar no hablescomer no comasescribir no escribasvolver no vuelvaspedir no pidashacer no hagassalir no salgasempezar no empiecestocar no toquesllegar no llegues

The same verbs that are irregular in the Formal commands are irregular in the negative tú command:

ir no vayas

ser no seas

saber no sepas

estar no estés

dar no dés