contribuir Affirmative Imperative Conjugation
contribuir — to contribute
Use 'contribuye' (tú) or 'contribuya' (usted) to tell someone to help out.
contribuir Affirmative Imperative Forms
When to Use the Affirmative Imperative
Use for direct commands or requests for someone to provide help, money, or ideas.
Notes on contribuir in the Affirmative Imperative
The 'tú' command is 'contribuye' (regular). The 'usted', 'nosotros', and 'ustedes' forms use the 'y' from the subjunctive.
Example Sentences
Contribuye con lo que puedas.
Contribute with whatever you can.
tú
Contribuyamos todos para limpiar la playa.
Let's all contribute to clean the beach.
nosotros
Contribuyan a la conversación, por favor.
Contribute to the conversation, please.
Common Mistakes
Mistake: Using 'contribuí' for the tú command.
Correct: contribuye
Why: Contribuí is the past tense (I contributed). The command 'tú' usually looks like the third-person present indicative.
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Related Tenses
Present
yo: contribuyo
The present tense of contribuir adds a 'y' before endings: contribuyo, contribuyes, contribuye, contribuyen.
Preterite
yo: contribuí
In the preterite, contribuir changes 'i' to 'y' in the third-person forms: contribuyó and contribuyeron.
Imperfect
yo: contribuía
The imperfect of contribuir is regular: contribuía, contribuías, contribuía, contribuíamos, contribuíais, contribuían.
Future
yo: contribuiré
The future tense of contribuir is regular: añadir the endings to the infinitive (contribuiré, contribuirás, etc.).
Conditional
yo: contribuiría
The conditional of contribuir is regular: añadir the endings -ía to the infinitive (contribuiría).
Present Subjunctive
yo: contribuya
The present subjunctive uses the 'y' stem from the 'yo' form: contribuya, contribuyas, contribuya...
Imperfect Subjunctive
yo: contribuyera
The imperfect subjunctive uses the 'y' from the preterite: contribuyera, contribuyeras, contribuyera...
Negative Imperative
yo: no contribuyas
All negative commands for contribuir use the 'y' stem: no contribuyas, no contribuya, no contribuyamos.