Help with Formal Commands!!!1

Question

For Spanish formal commands, I know the basic form of how to make them. But I need help with the conjugation of words in the yo present form.

• What verbs change in the yo present form( ex. -car, gar, zar)
• For affirmative formal commands, where do you put the accent mark?
• Why is the affirmative formal command for secarse, sequense? the e in sequense has an accent

Thanks

Bienvenido al foro. Welcome to the forum. - 0074b507, May 10, 2010

Answer 1

A simple way to determine where the accent mark goes on words that have appended pronouns is that the stress in maintained where it was before the pronouns are attached.

sequen=the word is "grave" since it ends in a vowel, n or s. The stress, therefore, falls on the first syllable (pentultimate) or above the first "e".

When we attach the reflexive pronoun "se" to form the positive command we get:

sequense.

This word is also "grave" as it ends in a vowel. Therefore, the stress would be on the strong vowel "e" in the diphthong (ue). However, we want to maintain the stress where it was originally before we appended any pronouns so we have to place an accent mark above the "é" in the first syllable.

The correct formal, (plural), positive command (ustedes) would be: séquense

The positive usted command would be séquese.

The informal tú command would , likewise, needs an accent mark. sécate

The informal vosotros command is an entirely different animal. secad+os=secaos

The nosotros command: sequemos+nos=sequémonos

(both of these last two drop letters when using attached reflexive pronouns, but they all follow the rule about maintaining the stress where it is on the word before the pronoun is attached.).

Answer 2

Corrígeme si me equivoco pero no hay nada una conjugación por yo en ningunos mandatos.

Para los mandatos formales, se usa una regla que uno debe recordar. "Pon el pronombre después del verbo y cuenta atrás tres sílabas. Aquí ponlo el accento." Mi profesora la había llamado "la regla de tres". Si usas dos pronombres entonces cuentas atrás cuatro sílabas.

El mandato para "secarse" cambia a "sequense" porque no se puede escribir "secense" porque "ce" suena como "se" y la letra "c" de "secarse" es un sonido concreto. Por eso, cambias la "c" a "qu".

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Correct me if I'm wrong but there isn't any conjugation for the "yo" form in any commands.

For the formal commands, a rule is used that one should remember. "Put the pronoun after the verb and count back three syllables. Here put the accent. My teacher used to call this "the rule of three". If you use two pronouns then you count back four syllables.

The command for "secarse" changes to "séquense" because it is not written "sécense" because "ce" sounds like "seh" and the letter "c" in "secarse" is a hard sound. Thats why you change the "c" to a "q".