1. Formal Commands
Unidad 3 Etapa 1

2. Review
• Informal commands - Friends and family
• Mom, buy milk, please.
• Mamá, compra la leche, por favor.
• Don’t drink the water!
• ¡No bebas el agua!

3. Positive Tú Commands
• To form positive informal commands, we
used the same form as the third person
singular form.
• ¡Anda! (Andar)
• ¡Vende! (Vender)
• ¡Abre! (Abrir)

4. Our irregulars were...
• Ven (Venir)
• Di (Decir)
• Ten (Tener)
• Sé (Ser)
• Pon (Poner)
• Haz (Hacer)
• Sal (Salir)
• Ve (Ir)

5. Negative Tú Commands
• Go to the Yo form - Drop the “O” - Add
the opposite tú form ending...
• ¡No bebas en clase! (Beber)
• ¡No salgas la clase! (Salir)
• ¡No duermas en clase! (Dormir)

6. Our irregulars were...
• No Seas (Ser)
• No Vayas (Ir)
• No des (Dar)
• No estés (Estar)
• No sepas (Saber)

7. Pronouns
• Direct, indirect, and reflexive pronouns
were attached to a positive command and
before a negative command.
• ¡Cómpralo!
• ¡No lo compres!

8. Formal Commands
• Formal commands are used to tell
someone you are not familiar with (or
someone you want to show respect to) to
do something.
• Teachers, doctors, waiters, friend’s parents...

9. Formal Commands
• Positive and negative formal (ud/uds)
commands are the same.
• Go to the Yo form - Drop the “O” - Add
the opposite ud/uds. form ending...

10. Formal Commands
• Escriba / Escriban (Escribir)
• Enseñe / Enseñen (Enseñar)
• Haga / Hagan (Hacer)
• Tenga / Tengan (Tener)
• Ponga / Pongan (Poner)

11. Our irregulars are...
• No sea / No sean (Ser)
• No vaya / No vayan (Ir)
• No dé / No den (Dar)
• No esté / No estén (Estar)
• No sepa / No Sepan (Saber)

12. Pronouns
• Pronouns are placed in the same place as
they are in the +Tú and -Tú forms
respectively. Attached for positive and
before for negative.

13. One last note
• Verbs that end in Car-Gar-Zar will continue
to have the same type of change in the
Formal Commands that they do in the
preterite tense.
• Empiece / Empiecen - (Empezar)
• Saque / Saquen - (Sacar)
• Almuerce / Almuercen (Almorzar)67u