Los verbos con "-ad", "-id"...

Question

...como mandatos. De donde viene esta conjugacion? Es muy antiguo, no? Yo no he encontrado ni escuchado jamas ningun explicacion en mis clases.

Answer 1

No no no no no, these are NOT voseo commands. They are vosotros commands. Vosotros is primarily only used in Spain, so you would use this to tell more than one person to do something. A vosotros command is conjugated by replacing the -r on an infinitive with a d. A voseo command, used as an alternative to a tú command in some South American countries, is conjugated by removing the -r from an infinitive and accenting the last letter, which is always a vowel. Neither voseo nor voseo commands are used in Spain.

Thank you for clarifying. - Jack-OBrien, Sep 15, 2010

Answer 2

Edit: Completely wrong. Never mind. Listen to socceryo.

Isn't it the second person plural imperative? - Jack-OBrien, Sep 15, 2010

No no no, that is not voseo at all. They are vosotros commands. Voseo commands drop the -r and accent the last vowel/letter. - socceryo3, Sep 15, 2010

This probably should have been flagged as poco inexacta. - 0074b507, Sep 15, 2010

Answer 3

Los verbos que terminan en 'ad' y 'id' está en la segunda persona plural forma imperativa. Por ejemplo, en la biblia en el libro de Salmos, capitulo 106, versículo uno, dice Alabad a Jehová. Es muy común, lo oigo en la iglesia y leerlo en la biblia.

EDIT: It is as Kevin says, and it is old, and it's not very common unless you hear it in church or read it in the Bible. The second person plural is the 'voseo' form. I was wondering why I never heard anyone use it

No, voseo is something else. Read my comment on Kevin's post. - socceryo3, Sep 15, 2010

This reply also probably merited the poco inexacta flag. - 0074b507, Sep 15, 2010