L'Impératif - the Imperative mood - is used to express commands, instructions and advice.
e.g. "Give me this!", "Listen carefully!"
Now look at these sentences in L'Impératif Présent:
In French, L'Impératif has three main characteristics:
- There are only 3 persons in L'Impératif: tu, nous, vous since you only issue commands to 'you' or 'us/we'.
- Like in English, the subject pronoun is dropped in L'Impératif.
- The verb is at the same form as in Le Présent for tu, nous and vous:
ATTENTION: Case of -ER verbs
Note that for all verbs ending in -ER (including aller), the -s is dropped at the end of the tu form.
The other forms (nous and vous) are regular.
Here are more -ER examples:
See also:
Forming simple negative commands (L'Impératif)
Forming affirmative commands with reflexive verbs (L'Impératif)
Conjugate être, avoir, savoir in L'Impératif (imperative)
Me becomes moi in affirmative commands (L'Impératif)
And the more advanced:
Using "y" with affirmative commands (L'Impératif)
Using "en" with affirmative commands (L'Impératif)
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