Los mandatos (Sit down! Shut up!

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Los mandatos (commands)

These are forms of direct speech, and dont have the 5 forms of conjugation like the other verb tenses. There are 4 different kinds of commands:

informal (t)

informal plural (vosotros)only used in Spain formal (Usted) (the plural Uds. is used for formal and informal in Latin America) nosotros (Lets..... when youre including yourself in the command) Were only going to cover the Ud/Uds. form

Formal commands [Ud. / Uds.]

A useful grammatical pointhow to tell people to do things [or NOT to do things!]

The formation is easy, if you remember the present tense. PLUS there are only 2 forms!

-AR
Start with the YO form in the present tense.

Drop the -O

Add e for the UD. form; -en for the Uds. form

Hablar--hablo

Hable! [speak!]

Hablen! [All of you, speak!]

To tell someone NOT to do something....stick a NO in front.

No mire aqu. [Dont look here.]

No compren de ellos. [Dont buy from them.]

ER and IR verbs
Yo form

drop the -O add A [Ud.] and AN [Uds.]

Correr--corro

Escribir--escribo

Corra ms rpido! Run faster! No corran en las calles. Dont run in the streets.

Escriba lo que digo. Write down what I say.

No escriban en los libros. Dont write in the books.

Irregular YO forms in the present

Verbs that have an irregular YO form maintain that irregularity, to which you add the appropriate ending. DECIRdigo Diga la verdad [Tell the truth!] HACERhago Hagan la tarea [Do the homework.]

SALIRsalgo Salgan inmediatemente. Leave immediately!

TENERtengo

Tengan cuidado! Be careful!

Stem-changing verbs maintain the change

JUGARjuego Jueguen bien, nios. [Play nice, kids]. [gue for pronunciation]

CERRARcierro

Cierre la ventana. [ Close the window.]

VOLVERvuelvo

Vuelvan temprano. [Come back early.]

GAR CAR ZAR verbs

These do the same thing that happened in the pretrito, for the same reasons.

-GAR will be gue / guen for pronunciation reasons

Paguen la cuenta!Pay the bill! No pague demasiado!Dont pay too much! -CAR will be que / quen for pronunciation reasons Toque la msica ms alto!Play the music louder! No toquen las estatuas!Dont touch the statues. -ZAR will be ce / cen just because Empiece ahora!Start now! No almuercen en la biblioteca!Dont eat lunch in the library!

4 irregular verbs to memorize

DAR D Den ESTAR est estn

SER

sea

sean IR vaya vayan

PRACTICAMOS
What orders or advice would you give in these situations?

Commands and pronouns

Reflexive, indirect and direct pronouns may be used with commandsLook at me! Dont talk to them! Put on your sweater! Sit [yourself] down and shut [yourself] up! Pronouns go after and attached to affirmative commands and you have to add an accent [AAA to A, AAA] to the original second to last syllable.

Mreme!Look at me!
Tell me the truth !Dgame la verdad.

For negative commands, NO + pronoun[s] + command

No me mirenDont look at me.

No me digan mentiras.Dont tell me lies.

CALLARSE
Does this ring a bell from high school Spanish class?

Practicar ms: escriban 2 ejemplos

Hablas con amigos que quieren hacer una fiesta pero no quieren problemas. Qu recomendaciones das?

Eres el babysitter de un grupo de nios de 5 aos. Qu mandatos das a ellos?

Qu recomendaciones dan los estudiantes a los profesores?

Qu recomendaciones dan los profesores a los estudiantes?

Miniprueba next class

LOLA LAGOSEXAMEN ORAL info next class