What is indirect command?
Indirect commands are commands (or other attempts to persuade or influence someone to do something) that you don’t hear straight from the speaker’s mouth. It’s easiest to understand this by first looking at examples of direct commands, then seeing how they would look in an indirect command.
What are commands in Spanish examples?
Informal Spanish Commands – Affirmative & Negative
| verb | tú command (affirmative) | example |
|---|---|---|
| hacer (to do, to make) | haz | Haz la cama. (Make the bed.) |
| ir (to go) | ve | Vete. (Go away.) |
| poner (to put, to place) | pon | Ponlo en mi habitación. (Put it in my room.) |
| salir (to go out, to leave) | sal | Sal de aquí. (Get out of here.) |
What are the three types of commands in Spanish?
There are many different types of Spanish commands, including tú commands, nosotros commands, indirect commands, and formal commands, which we’ll cover in this article.
What are the examples of indirect command?
You would normally use an indirect command when you ‘desire’ that someone do something, but you don’t want to ‘command’ them to do it: Imperative: Get me the paper! Indirect command: I want you to get me the paper!
What does an indirect command look like?
As Wheelock points out, indirect command is identical in formation to a purpose clause: ut or ne, plus a subjunctive verb, but instead of depending on a verb of motion in the main sentence, or something that an explanation of intention can be attached to, indirect commands have verbs of ordering, commanding, urging.
How do you form negative informal commands in Spanish?
To form a negative informal command, you conjugate the verb into the yo form of the present tense. You then drop the final o and add the opposite tú ending. If a verb is an -ar verb, you will add –es. If the verb is an -er or -ir verb, you will add –as.
What are Spanish indirect object pronouns?
The Spanish indirect object pronouns are: me, te, le in the singular, and nos, os, les in the plural. They can replace the preposition a (meaning to) + noun. Like the direct object pronoun, the indirect object pronoun usually comes before the verb.