Do you conjugate a verb after yo recomiendo que...

Question

Which is the correct way to say I recommend that you take medicine.

Yo recomiendo que tomar la medicina

or

Yo recomiendo que tomas la medicina

Answer 1

Te recomiendo tomar la medicina. I recommend that you take the medicine.

this is also correct.. - bunnaz, Nov 14, 2010

Answer 2

The subjunctive is required in this case. Remember that one of the uses of the subjunctive is to tell someone to do something or to recommend that someone do something. Therefore, the sentence "I suggest that you go" will be: "Sugiero que te vayas" Similarly, "I recommend that you take medicine" will be: "(Yo) recomiendo que tomes la medicina" or in this case you can simply say "(Yo) te recomiendo tomar la medicina" Either is correct

Answer 3

Ok, the way a native speaker would say that would be "Te recomiendo que tomes la medicina" or simply "Recomiendo que tomes la medicina". "Te recomiendo tomar la medicina" is fine too, by the way.

"que tomar" is just wrong. The subject pronoun at the beginning is redundant and wrong, unless there's more people giving recommendations to the same person.

Also, that verb in subjunctive mood, "tomes", isn't there because it is "future tense". This can be interpreted as a recommendation to take the medicine tomorrow or right now. It is subjunctive because whenever you give an order, recommendation, etc.. inside a d.o. ('que..') rather than with a verb in imperative mood, it needs to be in subjunctive. In fact you could simply say "Toma la medicina" to say the same thing, but more emphatically.

Finally, you can't say "Te recomiendo que tomas", that is just as wrong as 'que tomar'.

i like the explanation... - bunnaz, Nov 14, 2010

Answer 4

Yo recomiendo que tomes la medicina.

The subjunctive is required

Please use correct capitalization, thanks - 00494d19, Nov 14, 2010

why tomes and not tomas? - nickig21, Nov 14, 2010

You will use "tomes" because it's the subjunctive conjugation for "tomar" in the second person singular. The subjunctive is used in cases like these, where you tell someone to do something, or you recommend that they do something. - bunnaz, Nov 14, 2010

Answer 5

And bunnaz, you are correct. Yo hablo, escrivo y leo Espanol.

.. then you should be aware that it's spelled 'escribo' - bill1111, Nov 14, 2010

thanks. Bill they wrote "escrivo" because the "b" and the "v" are pronounced almost the same... - bunnaz, Nov 14, 2010

Not almost.. they are pronounced exactly the same. That doesn't mean native speakers would spell that wrong, particularly such a common word - bill1111, Nov 14, 2010

español (lower case and with 'ñ') - samdie, Nov 15, 2010

Answer 6

I would actually make it reflexive, and say "Yo te recomiendo que tomar la medicina."

Hope that helps!

thanks - nickig21, Nov 14, 2010

The Yo doesn't need to be there the verb congugation states the yo part of the sentence. - kenwilliams, Nov 14, 2010

That 'te' is not reflexive, it's just the i.o. pronoun. A pronoun can never be reflexive if it doesn't match the number/person of the verb. - bill1111, Nov 14, 2010

Answer 7

Sorry Poundage and Ken, your tense is incorrect.

Ok with que I should have used subjuntive mood, what is wrong with it now that it has been corrected bearing in mind that thre is more than one way to express a sentence? - kenwilliams, Nov 14, 2010

Answer 8

I use tomes to indicate take(future tense), tomas=are taking.

tomes isn't future tense. - Jack-OBrien, Nov 14, 2010

Answer 9

why tomes and not tomas?

subjunctive (present) is tomes - Jack-OBrien, Nov 14, 2010