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Cornell Notes Commands With Pronouns and Review of Informal Commands

This document summarizes rules for forming affirmative and negative commands in Spanish using tú pronouns. It explains that affirmative commands are formed using the present tense form without "s", and pronouns can be added to the end. Some common verbs have irregular affirmative forms. Negative commands are formed by taking the yo form present tense, dropping the "o" and adding endings. Pronouns are placed before the verb in negative commands.

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Cornell Notes Commands With Pronouns and Review of Informal Commands

This document summarizes rules for forming affirmative and negative commands in Spanish using tú pronouns. It explains that affirmative commands are formed using the present tense form without "s", and pronouns can be added to the end. Some common verbs have irregular affirmative forms. Negative commands are formed by taking the yo form present tense, dropping the "o" and adding endings. Pronouns are placed before the verb in negative commands.

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Cornell Notes: p.

106 Commands with pronouns and review of


informal commands

Regular affirmative To tell a person to do something, use an affirmative


Informal Commands command. Tú commands are used with family and
friends (anyone you would speak to as "tú"). The
regular affirmative tú command is the same as the
él/ella form of the Present Indicative Tense: ¡Habla!
You could also think of it as being the same as the tú
form, but without the "s."
Example
Walk! = ¡Camina! Eat! = ¡Come! Open! = ¡Abre!
Pronoun Placement
for affirmative If you use an affirmative command with a direct object
commands pronoun, attach the pronoun to the end of the
command: ¡Abre la puerta --> ¡Abrela!

If needed, add an accent mark when you attach a


pronoun in order retain the original stress. (Remember
that if not marked with an accent, a word that ends in a
vowel or the consonants n or s is stressed on the next-
to-last syllable.) ¡Escribe! ¡Escríbelo!
Irregular Affirmative
tú commands Remember how to form regular affirmative tú
commands? You use the present indicative tense tú
form, but drop off the "s": ¡Habla! ¡Come! ¡Abre!
Some verbs have irregular affirmative tú command
forms:

Definition Affirmative tú
Infinitive
command
Tell/say decir di
Do/make hacer haz
Go ir ve
Come venir ven
Put/set poner pon
Leave salir sal
Be ser sé
Have tener ten
Remember that when you use a pronoun with an
affirmative tú command, you attach the pronoun to the
end of the command: ¡Hazlo ahora!
When you tell someone what not to do, use a negative
command. Negative commands are formed by starting
Negative Tú with the yo form of the present tense, dropping the o
Commands and adding the appropriate ending:

Yo form Present Negative Tú


Infinitive
Tense Command
Examples
hablar hablo ¡No hables!
comer como ¡No comas!
venir vengo ¡No vengas!
Notice that the vowel in the ending changes to the
"opposite" of that of the infinitive. An -AR verb's vowel
changes from "a" to "e" and -ER/IR verbs change from
"e" or "i" to "a."

There are a few irregular negative tú command verbs:

Definitions Infinitive (yo Negative Tú


Irregular Negative tú
form) Command
commands
Don’t give dar (doy) ¡No des!
Don’t be estar (estoy) ¡No estés!
Don’t go ir (voy) ¡No vayas!
Don’t know saber (sé) ¡No sepas!
Don’t be ser (soy) ¡No seas!
Don’t look ver (veo) ¡No veas!

With negative tú commands, pronouns are always


placed before the verb:

¡No lo uses! ¡No la escribas!


Pronoun Placement
with negative tú
commands

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