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used with people you would address as tú. | |
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give orders or telling someone what to do | |
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often referred to as the imperative form of the verb | |
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| most -er and -ir verbs: drop the -o from the yo form and add -as | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The negative form of verbs that have the infinitive endings -car, -gar, or -zar. Follow a pattern which preserves the original phonics. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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