how do you say up
put your hands up
4 Answers
¡Pongan los manos arriba! (put your hands up using the command imperative of poner.
Otra posibilidad, ¡Llevense los manos! (raise your hands, again command for of llevarse)
Estoy casi seguro que estas respuestos son correctos.
Timo
It depends. Are you robbing a bank? Then "¡Manos arriba!" is probably what you are looking for. Spanish-speaking thieves, being the highly efficient people they are, have opted to leave the verb out altogether thereby creating a phrase that can be applied easily and quickly in several geographical, socio-economic, and cultural situations. The thief / robber will not have to fumble around trying to figure out if he should use tu, usted, ustedes, or vosotros verb forms or pronouns when referring to his victim or victims.
Are you instructing a class? Then more care will have to go into word choice. Perhaps "¡Levanten la mano!" will fit the bill. Or, if you are addressing a single student, then ¡Levante la mano! Unless, of course, you are really friendly with your students AND you are addressing them as a group AND you are in Spain, in which case, you would say, ¡Levantad la mano! (The rest of the Spanish-speaking world would still say ¡Levanten la mano! in this case). On the other hand, if you are really friendly with your students and you are addressing a single student, then you would say ¡Levanta la mano! (even in Spain, but not in countries that use voseo like Argentina, but I forget how voseo forms conjugate).
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