Positive Commands

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A command is an instruction or an order to do something. Remember there are four ways of saying ‘you’ in Spanish, so there are four command forms.

For the TU, USTED and USTEDES forms, remove the –O of the yo form of the present tense before adding the endings.

For the VOSOTROS form remove the –R from the infinitive before adding the ending.

	INFINITIVE	TU	USTED	USTEDES	VOSOTROS
-ar	Hablar	HablA	HablE	HablEN	HablAD
-er	Comer	ComE	ComA	ComAN	comED
-ir	Escribir	EscribE	EscribA	EscribAN	escribID

Por ejemplo:

Marta, habla más despacio > Marta speak more slowly.

David y Pablo comed las verdures > David and Pablo eat your vegetables.

Señor Villatoro pase por aquí > Mr Villatoro come this way

NB: The rules above also apply to verbs which are irregular in the YO form of the present tense and to stem-changing verbs.

The following verbs have their irregular parts highlighted in bold:

		TU	VOSOTROS	USTED	USTEDES
To say	Decir	Di	Decid	Diga	Digan
To do	Hacer	Haz	Haced	Haga	Hagan
To go	Ir	Ve	Id	Vaya	Vayan
To put	Poner	Pon	Poned	Ponga	Pongan
To go out	Salir	Sal	Salid	Salga	Salgan
To be	Ser	Sé	Sed	Sea	Sean
To be	Estar	Está	Estad	Esté	Estén
To have	Tener	Ten	Tened	Tenga	Tengan
To come	Venir	Ven	Venid	Venga	Vengan

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