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Today we're going to learn more conjugations of Dar, the Spanish verb that means give. And actually, to start with, we're going to

work with imperatives. These are some of the most common forms, because in Spanish, as in English,

some of the most common orders or imperatives are saying things like, give me that, or please give it to her.

The basic informal imperative for when you're talking to one person is da.

For example, please take a walk afterwards.

For favor, da' she gives or she gives. But it's very easy to tell from a statement it's being used in a statement or in an imperative.

And that's partly because the imperatives of this verb almost always involve contractions.

The most common forms are dame, which means give me or give to me,

and d'ale, which means give to him or her.

Here are some examples.

Give me that.

Give me this.

Give her the job that she wants.

In general, the verb dar,

is almost never used without an indirect object pronoun

because when you give something to anyone, there is a recipient.

So it's also very common to use infinitive contractions such as darme, darle, and darte.

Here are some examples of those.

I'm here in order to give you this.

I'm here to give you this.

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