Spanish Command and Imperative Practice Generator

A learner who has pon la mesa down cold for "set the table" will often try no pons la mesa a few weeks later, and get it wrong, because negative tú commands don't keep the irregular form the affirmative one uses. They switch tracks entirely and borrow the present subjunctive instead, no pongas. That shift catches students who already have the eight irregular affirmative tú commands memorized: pon, sal, ten, ven, haz, di, ve, and sé, from poner, salir, tener, venir, hacer, decir, ir, and ser. This tool drills that exact seam instead of treating the imperative as one uniform shape.

Command form is [COMMAND_FORM:select:Informal tú commands,Formal usted and ustedes commands,Vosotros commands for Spain,Mixed drill across all forms].

Polarity is [POLARITY:select:Affirmative only,Negative only,Both affirmative and negative side by side].

Verbs to drill are [VERB_LIST] (name specific verbs, or give a theme like "kitchen instructions" or "classroom rules," and appropriate verbs will get chosen for you).

CEFR level is [CEFR_LEVEL:select:A1 (beginner),A2 (elementary),B1 (intermediate),B2 (upper intermediate)].

I need [ITEM_COUNT:number:10-40] items in the drill.

For tú commands, when both polarities are requested, place the affirmative and negative forms of the same verb next to each other so the shift is visible in context, not buried across two separate lists. Flag every verb that falls into the eight-verb irregular affirmative set, and note that its negative form is regular in structure even though the affirmative wasn't, since it's built off the present subjunctive the same way every other negative tú command is.

For usted and ustedes commands, build both the affirmative and negative form from the third person present subjunctive. Formal commands use that identical subjunctive form for both polarities, unlike tú commands where the two split apart. Note where pronoun placement shifts too, attached to the end of the verb for affirmative commands, sometimes adding a written accent to hold the original stress, and written as its own word before the verb for negative commands.

If vosotros commands get requested, build the regular affirmative form by dropping the final r from the infinitive and adding d, and flag that this form only shows up in Spain, since Latin American Spanish uses ustedes for the plural you across every register, formal or casual.

Match example sentences and command contexts to [CEFR_LEVEL]. Keep instructions concrete and household or classroom-based at A1, and let softened requests or a more formal usted register appear naturally at B1 and above.

Close by naming the one or two forms in this specific drill that trip learners up most, and give one plain sentence explaining why each mistake happens.