Get Sightseeing Tips in Spanish

Quick Answer

¡Hola!Learn how to get sightseeing tips in this article and the lessons above! Specifically, learn how to do the following in Spanish:

• give informal commands

• talk about someone or something you’ve already mentioned

• use terms related to tourism

Vocabulary

Let's start off with the vocab words in these lessons!

Nouns

Spanish	English
la anticipación	anticipation
el descuento	discount
los prismáticos	binoculars

examples
Planifica tu visita con anticipación. Plan your visit beforehand.
Busca descuentos para estudiantes. Look for student discounts.
El de los prismáticos grandes. The one with the big binoculars.

Note that, when used with con(with), the meaning of anticipación changes. Con anticipación can be translated as beforehand or in advance.

Verb and Verb Phrase: Tú Command Forms

In this skill, you learn the tú command forms for the following verb and verb phrase!

Infinitive	English	Tú Command Form	Negative Tú Command Form
informarse	to find out	infórmate	no te informes
hacer turismo	to go sightseeing	haz turismo	no hagas turismo

Tú Commands: The Informal Imperative

Tú commands are the singular form of informal commands. You can use affirmative tú commands to tell a friend, family member the same age as you or younger, classmate, child, or pet to do something. To tell somebody not to do something, you would use a negative tú command.

How to Form Regular Affirmative Tú Commands

For regular verbs, you will simply use the third-person singular form of the present indicative to form an affirmative tú command:

For verbs that end in -ar, add the third-person singular ending -a to the stem

For verbs that end in -er and -ir, add the third-person singular ending -e to the stem

Forming Commands with Verbs with Stem or Spelling Changes

For verbs with stem changes or spelling changes in the present tense, the stem or spelling change also applies to the informal command form.

Irregular Affirmative Tú Commands

All verbs with irregular third-person singular forms in the present tense maintain that same irregularity in the affirmative informal command, except for the following eight verbs, which have special irregular affirmative command forms.