I had a tough time with the conjugation for Imperative (imperativo) verbs and Imperative Affirmative (imperativo afirmativo) verbs.
Imperativo verbs are verbs that give an order, it can be either affirmative like "Open the door" or negative "Don't open the door".To my understanding the former is called "imperativo afirmativo" and the latter "imperativo".
OK, now to use the verb we need to conjugate it to the correct form. Lets look at the normal conjugation rules taking a regular "AR" verb as an example.
El verbo "Comprar"
| Present tense | Imperative | Imperative Affirmative |
| tú compras | no compres | compra |
| Ud. compra | no compre | compre |
| vosotros compráis | no compréis | comprad |
| Uds. compran | no compren | compren |
In the case of a regular "ER" verb
El verbo "Comer"
| Present tense | Imperative | Imperative Affirmative |
| tú comes | no compas | come |
| Ud. come | no coma | coma |
| vosotros coméis | no comáis | comed |
| Uds. comen | no coman | coman |
And finally a regular "IR" verb
El verbo "Vivir"
| Present tense | Imperative | Imperative Affirmative |
| tú vives | no vivas | vive |
| Ud. vive | no viva | viva |
| vosotros vivís | no viváis | vivid |
| Uds. viven | no vivan | vivan |
Based on my observation I have framed the below table showing the suffix changes that occur for each of the 4 forms in both negative and affirmative.
| AR | ER | IR | |
| tú (imperativo) | as-es | es-as | es-as |
| tú (I.A) | as-a | es-e | es-e |
| Ud.(imperativo) | a-e | e-a | e-a |
| Ud.(I.A) | a-e | e-a | e-a |
| vosotros (imperativo) | áis-éis | éis-áis | ís-áis |
| vosotros (I.A) | ad | ed | id |
| Uds.(imperativo) | an-en | en-an | en-an |
| Uds.(I.A) | an-en | en-an | en-an |
By imperativo I mean the negative verbs like "no hables"(Don't talk) and I.A are Imperativo Afirmativo verbs used for giving commans like "habla" (Talk).
No comments:
Post a Comment