{"id":137,"date":"2025-03-13T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:18:46","slug":"how-to-give-instructions-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/spanish-blog\/how-to-give-instructions-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"How to give instructions in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are 2 ways to give instructions in Spanish:<\/b><\/p>

  1. Imperative affirmative<\/li>
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    Imperative Affirmative in Spanish\n<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    The imperative is used to give orders, instructions, requests\u2026\u00a0The imperative has only 4 forms:\u00a0t\u00fa, usted, vosotros, ustedes<\/i>.<\/p>

    Regular<\/strong><\/p>

    Remember that when the imperative is accompanied with pronouns, the pronouns are attached to the verb making just one word.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Example:<\/p>

    \u2013 \u00bfCierro la ventana? \u2013 S\u00ed, ci\u00e9rrala<\/b>.
    \u2013 Do I close the window? \u2013 Yes, close it.<\/i><\/p>

    \u2013 Pela las patatas, l\u00e1valas<\/b>\u00a0y c\u00f3rtalas<\/b>.
    \u2013 Peal the potatoes, wash them and cut them.<\/i><\/p>

    There are some\u00a0irregular verbs<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Impersonal \"SE\"<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    The word \u201cse<\/b>\u201d has many uses in Spanish. In some cases \u201cse\u201d is used in an impersonal sense. The impersonal \u201cse\u201d structure is a way of talking about things that get done when the subject is unknown or unimportant. This is a very common structure in Spanish but English doesn\u2019t have this structure so it is translated in different ways depending on the meaning. One of the uses, the one that is important for us in this article, is to give instructions.<\/p>

    Example:<\/p>

    \u2013 La paella\u00a0se hace<\/b>\u00a0con arroz, carne, verduras y pescado. Primero\u00a0se fr\u00eden<\/b>\u00a0los trozos de carne y pescado y las verduras. Luego\u00a0se a\u00f1ade<\/b>\u00a0el arroz y el agua.
    \u2013 The paella is made with rice, meat, vegetables and fish. First, the meat and fish pieces are fried. Then we add the rice and the water.<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Video class in Spanish<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Watch the video below to practise your Spanish listening skills and learn more about giving instructions in Spanish.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    <\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are 2 ways to give instructions in Spanish: Imperative affirmative Impersonal \u201cse\u201d Imperative Affirmative in Spanish The imperative is used to give orders, instructions, requests\u2026\u00a0The imperative has only 4 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spanish-blog","8":"category-education","9":"category-learning-spanish","10":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaortegagarcia.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}