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LearnCraft Spanish

54: Spanish imperatives

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Spanish imperatives can be tricky, especially some of the most-used imperatives such as ve, ten, and váyase. Let's learn both the positive and negative imperatives of Ir, Irse, and Tener — and get lots of practice using them in context.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/54

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0:00.0

One, two, three.

0:05.5

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:10.5

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:15.4

Today we're going to learn a few new adjectives.

0:18.7

To begin with, let's learn some numbers.

0:23.6

Now, you may already know these numbers. One is one, two is dos, and three is tres. The thing about numbers is that they don't

0:33.1

always work exactly the same way as other adjectives do.

0:41.0

First of all, they have to go before a noun.

0:46.3

It's not optional whether you put them before or after a noun, as in the case of Bueno.

0:54.0

Second, numbers don't tend to change based on the number or the gender of the noun that follows them. For example, two guys is

0:57.1

dos chikos and two girls is dos chicas. The exception is the number one. Uno does change based on the

1:09.9

thing after it.

1:11.6

And you've actually kind of learned this already.

1:14.6

The indefinite articles, Un and Una, are actually just variations on the word for one.

1:21.6

So if you put Uno before a masculine noun, such as Chico, it becomes un. So you would say un chico. Of course,

1:31.7

this begs the question, how will we ever use the word uno rather than just un or una?

1:40.7

Well, you'll use uno with an o at the end when you're just naming the number by itself,

1:48.0

or when it's separate from what it's representing.

1:50.8

For example, one guy is un chico, but one of the guys is

1:57.9

one of the guys is uno de los chikos.

2:01.4

This is actually pretty easy to practice.

2:04.2

By the way, now that we have some numbers,

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