1. FORMAL COMMANDS Usted /Ustedes To give orders To give advice
MANDATOS FORMALES
FORMAL COMMANDS
Usted /Ustedes
To give orders
To give advice

2. FORMAL COMMANDS Usted (you formal)
Ustedes (you all in Latin America; you all formal in Spain).

3. Hablo Hablar Habl e Hable Habl en Hablen
The usted and ustedes commands, (like the negative tú commands), are formed by dropping the final -o of the yo form of the present tense. For -ar verbs, add -e or -en.
Hablo
Hablar
Habl e
Hable
Habl en
Hablen

4. For -er and -ir verbs, add -a or -an.
Escribo
Escribir
Escrib a
Escriba
Escrib an
Escriban

7. Verbs with IRREGULAR PRESENT TENSE “YO” FORMS will have irregular command forms. –cir, -cer> zc -ger, -gir> j (*go verbs, decir, poner, hacer, oír, salir, venir, tener)

8. -STEM CHANGES will occur as they do in the 1st person present form of the verb

9. -VERBS ENDING IN –CAR, -GAR & -ZAR will have special spelling changes.

10. -There are some additional IRREGULAR VERBS in formal commands.

11. Pronouns and Commands
Pronouns (direct and indirect object as well as reflexive) will precede negative commands and attach to the end of affirmative commands.
¡Báñense ustedes!
¡No se bañe usted!

12. *Remember to add an accent mark to an affirmative command if you attach a pronoun in order to preserve the original stress (on the second to last syllable of the command without the pronoun)