There are no irregular usted or ustedes commands. However, there are many irregular subjunctive conjugations to remember. A few or them: this time we can`t avoid using an accent mark on the tú form command, as we are now adding two syllables to the di. How is this different form a usted command? Remember that the usted command uses the subjunctive form, the tú form command uses the indicative. Here is a diagram of the two for comparison: Use no and a subjunctive verb of the form tú for negative commands: All Ud. (usted) and Uds. (ustedes) The controls are the same as those of the Ud. and Uds. Subjunctive forms. Spanish commands, on the other hand, are very complex because we have a separate verbal conjugation for each subject and we have more subjects because of our distinction between formal and informal.
Here are all the subject options for Spanish commands in our familiar table: To change a verb to an affirmative command usted or ustedes, simply use the appropriate subjunctive conjugation: pronouns lie between the negative word (e.g. no) and the command form in negative formal commands. The nosotros and vosotros commands differ slightly when a reflexive pronoun is used. To make pronunciation a little easier, we`ll remove the “-s” from the nosotros affirmative command and the “-d” from the vosotros affirmative command before adding the reflexive pronoun. Negative commands are not affected: Here are some examples of singular formal commands, also known as ustedcommands. Use the appropriate connective conjugation for affirmative commands: usted or ustedes commands can easily be turned into negative commands (where you tell someone not to do something). Just add no: Vosotros commands are commands given to a group of friends or peers. They are mainly used in Spain. In other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, ustedes commands are used instead (regardless of the relationships involved). Like tú-shaped commands, Vosotros commands are a bit complicated.
To form an affirmative vosotros command, we will do something simple but unusual: replace the “-r” at the end of the infinitive with an “-d”. To form a negative vosotros command, it is enough to use the subjunctive and a no: as you can see, there is usually only one letter of difference between a usted command and a tú command. (The difference between a polite apology and an insult is the difference between perdóneme and perdóname.) You will notice that there is no command equivalent to yo. That`s because you just can`t command “I” to do anything. Likewise, there is no él, ella, ellos or ellas, because we cannot command “he”, “she” or “she” to do anything. All commands are either the first person plural or the second person. Remember, if the first person singular (yo) form is irregular, this irregularity is transferred into the formation of the formal command. If you look closely, you may have noticed that some accent marks suddenly appeared in the affirmative usted and ustedes commands. These are not typos. We do not want to change the natural pronunciation of our order (diga and digan), although we do add a syllable. To preserve the original intonation, we write an accent mark on the vowel, which would be underlined if no object was appropriate.
The “i” in dime does not need an accent, because even with the object attached, the accent always falls in the right place (learn more about accent marks and special characters). Use the indicative él/ella/usted (and not the form tú) of the verb for affirmative commandments: here the subject refers to the person commanded. In English, we have only three options; The singular “you”, the plural “you” and “we”. We do not distinguish between a formal and informal “you” as we do in Spanish. (The exclamation mark isn`t really necessary for a command to be a command, but it helps for demonstration purposes.) It sounds very strange, but to conjugate an affirmative command tú, we actually use the indicative form él/ella/usted (not the tú form) of the verb: all formal commands are based on the third person forms of the present subjunctive.