positive/negative tu commands

Question

I'm learning about positive and negative tú commands, and I'm a little bit confused. I know that I put the verb in the present él form (ex: comer, come).

But what about verbs like decirle or jugarlo?

and what is the difference between the affirmative ver and ir commands?

edit: And I'm looking for the WHY/HOW I do those words.

Thanks so much

Answer 1

Decir is irregular. We simply have to memorize it. There really isn't any other option.

Jugar is a stem changing verb, that follows a regular pattern for this type of verb (when the stress is on the "u" it changes to "ue"), so the tú command would be juegue. Uh oh! There's another change in it. A "g" followed by "e" sounds different, so we add a "u" that isn't pronounced to keep the hard sound of the "g". We're still not done. Somehow we got an accent or tilde on the first "e". That's because when you add the "le" to the end of the verb, the stressed syllable is no longer the next to the last where the stress normally occurs. We add the tilde to keep the stress on the same syllable.

I know that's a long answer, but there are a number of rules involved. Eventually, the rules will become second nature and make perfect sense (well, maybe not perfect)

Keep working with it and it'll get easier. There are a lot of folks here who are more than willing to help. If my explanation doesn't make any sense, don't hesitate to say so. Maybe someone else can explain it better.

thanks that helps a little. :) - GeniusS, Mar 16, 2010

Answer 2

Decirle would be dile and jugarlo would be juéguelo. As for ver and ir... the command forms are the same (ve), so context is your only help there.

thanks, but why are those the answers? - GeniusS, Mar 16, 2010