tu form with "s" or "a" ending

Question

My vocabulary word is apurar. One sentence uses apures and the other uses apura. They both translate as a command for somene "you". Why the two different endings? What difference does it make?

1. iNo me apures, que sabes que me pone de mal humor!

2. Apura el paso o llegarás tarde al trabajo.

Please fill out your profile so as we may better help you . Welcome to the forum . Buena suerte amiga. - ray76, Jun 7, 2014

I am also waiting for you to fill your profile. - chileno, Jun 7, 2014

Vamos a tomar un vino mientras esperamos. Gracias chilleno mi buen amigo. - ray76, Jun 7, 2014

Answer 1

First you need to inspect the different possible endings of the verb. You know that the present indicative holds apurar as: Apuro Apuras Apura Apuramos Apuran

And due to the ending of the apurar in the first sentence you should be able to tell that you're either working with the subjective or the negative command of apurar, then by the context you should be able to deduce that it is the negative command, "No me apures..."

No moving to the second sentence you find the word "apura" appearing just as shown. This means that it is either the present indicative (he/she/it hurries) or an affirmative command. Once again you can see that contextually it must be the latter.

So finally, to answer you question, the difference between the two is that one is the negative and the other is the affirmative of the command (mandato).

(Both are in the "tú" form, just different conjugations)

Answer 2

apures is present subjunctive which is a command and apura is present tense it is like talking to people that you know of but you don't know a lot about them.

That is not it, but you made the effort, to answer. - chileno, Jun 7, 2014

Apures is NOT the subjunctive in this context (and subjunctive =/= command). - Vida_de_Scott, Jun 7, 2014