consentir Affirmative Imperative Conjugation
consentir — to pamper
Use 'consiente' to tell someone to spoil you and 'consienta' for formal requests.
consentir Affirmative Imperative Forms
When to Use the Affirmative Imperative
Use the imperative to give a direct command to someone to pamper someone else or to give permission.
Notes on consentir in the Affirmative Imperative
The 'tú' command uses the stem change (consiente). The 'nosotros' command uses the 'i' change (consintamos).
Example Sentences
¡Consiente a tu hermano, que es su cumpleaños!
Spoil your brother, it's his birthday!
tú
Consienta a sus clientes para que vuelvan.
Pamper your clients so they return.
usted
Consintamos a los abuelos hoy.
Let's pamper the grandparents today.
nosotros
Common Mistakes
Mistake: Using 'consente' for the tú command.
Correct: consiente
Why: The affirmative tú command usually matches the third-person singular present indicative, which has the 'ie' change.
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Related Tenses
Present
yo: consiento
Consentir undergoes an e to ie stem change in all forms except nosotros and vosotros.
Preterite
yo: consentí
Consentir has a 'slipper' irregularity: the 'e' changes to 'i' only in the third-person forms.
Imperfect
yo: consentía
Consentir is completely regular in the imperfect: consentía, consentías, consentía...
Future
yo: consentiré
The future of consentir is regular: just add the endings to the full infinitive.
Conditional
yo: consentiría
The conditional of consentir is regular: consentiría, consentirías, consentiría...
Present Subjunctive
yo: consienta
Consentir has two stem changes here: 'ie' in most forms and 'i' in nosotros/vosotros.
Imperfect Subjunctive
yo: consintiera
The imperfect subjunctive uses the 'consintie-' stem derived from the preterite.
Negative Imperative
yo: no consientas
Negative commands use the present subjunctive forms: no consientas, no consintamos.