Vin Diesel has ten weapons, eh!

So I went back to listen to Track #72 again, since I was having trouble with Affirmative Informal Tú Commands. Pienso que entiendo ahora. I found these two slides to illustrate.

So according to Mihalis we use the mood tense to make commands with one exception: Positive Informal Tú Commands. You take the informal you conjugation of the present tense, drop the -s and you end up with the affirmative command. This also happens to be the same as the he/she/you formal version, but shouldn't cause confusion because of the tone of the voice and the small words that will come after like lo and me. Remember we still use the mood tense for the negative command.

For the irregular verbs I found this slide to help remember the Affirmative Tú Command shortcuts.

Este es un video de Vin Diesel hablando Español.

Vende! Vende! Vende!

Track #72. We use the mood tense to make commands with one exception: positive informal commands. When we are speaking informally and we are telling someone to do something, rather than telling them not to do something. According to Mihalis the reason why we don't use the mood tense here is because these commands are the most used they needed a short cut. (because all day people are telling people informally to 'wait here', 'buy this', 'call me later' etc.) It's such common speech and it seemed 'heavy' to use the mood tense. 

So to build it you start with the informal tú version in the present tense and drop the 's'. It ends up looking like the he/she/you formal but it won't be ambiguous from the context.

• You buy - compras (informal)
• Buy - compra (informal)
• Buy it - compralo
• Buy me it - compramelo; but
• Don't buy it - no lo compres (using the mood tense)

In my business you also need to know:

• You sell - vendes
• Sell - vende
• Sell it - vendelo; but
• Don't sell it - no lo vendas (using the mood tense)

I Command You

Track #72 Language Transfer: Giving orders informally using the mood tense.

• Don't speak - You don't speak - No hables
• Don't stay - You don't stay - No te quedas
• Don't give - You don't give - No des
• Don't eat - You don't eat - No comas

If you're giving the command to more than one person:

• Eat - Coman
• Wait - Esperen

Against the normal rule, for positive or affirmative commands, the small words (me, lo etc.) can follow the changed verb. For example.

• Eat it - Comanlo
• Wait for me - Wait me - Esperenme
• Wait for him - Wait him - Esperenlo
• Wait for them - Wait them - Esperenlos

This isn't the case for negative commands, they must still follow the rule and go before the changed verb. For example:

• Don't wait for them - No los esperen
• Don't eat it - No lo coman