Practice using the correct imperative form of verbs
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| Do you know how to ask someone to do something in Spanish? |
| Welcome to Three Step Spanish Practice by SpanishPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice with verbs in the imperative form. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Bisabuela, enséñame a cocinar comida mexicana. |
| "Great-grandmother, teach me how to cook Mexican food." |
| Está bien. Vamos a preparar pozole. |
| Primero, pon agua en una olla. |
| "Alright. We're going to make pozole. |
| First, put water in a pot." |
| pon agua en una olla |
| pon |
| In the sentence, pon is the imperative form of the verb poner, which means "to put." |
| In Spanish, the imperative mood is used to give direct commands or instructions. |
| These sentences usually leave out the subject pronoun like tú "you," because the verb form itself shows who is being addressed. |
| For regular verbs, the imperative form for tú is made by removing the final -s from the present tense second person. |
| For example, comes, meaning "you eat," becomes come, meaning "eat," and bebes, meaning "you drink," becomes bebe, meaning "drink." |
| This is a helpful rule for forming informal affirmative commands in Spanish. |
| Let's use these imperative forms together during this lesson! |
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