What Indicative/condition should I use?

Question

What Indicative/Condition form of a verb when I want to express a negative action in the future? Eg, You will not go. Or should I just use the Imperative (command) form? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Well if you wanted to say just "you will not go" then say "no irás." But if you want to tell them not to go in a command form then say "no vayas." These aren't the only ways, but they're good ones.

Answer 2

There is a third, seldom seen, use of the future: in commands, as in the ten commandments, where the usage is similar to that in English.

No matarás.                      Thou shalt not kill.

Here we have the future tense serving as a command. (but not the imperative mood command form of the verb)

But you shouldn't use it unless you are Moses. - lorenzo9, Aug 20, 2011