spanish imperative

when is the imperative mood used

• commands

• questions

• present happening

• things that might happen

whats the first step in forming the imperative

• keep infinitive

• add pronoun

• find the stem

• find out gender of verb

what do you do after finding stem

• add preterite ending

• add imperative ending

• find auxiliary verb

• find pronoun

find ending for verb hablar

• hablo

• hables

• habli

• habla

find the ending of beber

• bebe

• beba

• bebes

• bebas

find the ending of the verb escribir

• escribi

• escribe

• escriba

• escribas

find the imperative form of tener

• tenes

• tene

• ten

• tena

find the imperative form of the verb poner

• pon

• ponas

• pona

• pone

translate compra la ropa

• I bought the clothes

• buy the clothes

• you buy clothes

• we will buy clothes

translate go to school

• va al colegio

• voy al colegio

• vas al colegio

• vete al colegio