Semester 1: summary

Affirmative Tú commands (present tense of él/ella/usted)

EX: Lavar= Lava

irregular Tú commands

VIN DIESEL HAS TEN WEAPONS, EH?

VIN DI SAL HACER TEN VE PON

venir decir salir hacer tener ir poner ser

to come to say/to tell to leave/to go out to do/to make to have to go to put to place to be

DOP (direct object pronoun)

  • answers WHOM? or WHAT? about the verb

DOP goes BEFORE the conjugated verb OR ATTACHED to the infinitive verb

EX: I am not going to take it today

BEFORE- No lo voy a tomar hoy

ATTACHED- no voy a tomarlo hoy

ME NOS

TE

LO/LA LOS/LAS

the ‘Personal A’ rule

  • if the object in a sentence is a PERSON, GROUP of people, or a PET, you proceed with a ‘personal A’

    EX: Paula visit a Sofia

  • DO NOT use ‘personal A’ with the verb TENER (to have)

IOP (indirect object pronoun)

  • answers TO WHOM? or FOR WHOM?

  • they ACCOMPANY or REPLACE the IOP nouns that act as IOPs (REPRESENTS PEOPLE)

    EX: Rosa gives a ticket TO her= Rosa LE dar un boleto a ella

In a command you ATTACH the IOP AFTER the command

EX: give the chair to armando=DaLE la silla a Armando

ME NOS

TE

LE LES

preterite of “-AR” verbs

  • tells you what happened at a particular moment in the PAST

    -E -AMOS

  • -ASTE

  • -O -ARON