jugar Affirmative Imperative Conjugation
jugar — to play
The imperative of jugar uses the 'ue' stem change for most commands.
jugar Affirmative Imperative Forms
When to Use the Affirmative Imperative
Use this to tell someone to play, or to suggest 'let's play'.
Notes on jugar in the Affirmative Imperative
The 'tú' form is 'juega'. The 'nosotros' (let's play) and 'usted' forms use the 'gu' spelling from the subjunctive.
Example Sentences
¡Juega con tu hermano!
Play with your brother!
tú
Jueguen limpio, por favor.
Play fair, please.
¡Juguemos al fútbol!
Let's play soccer!
nosotros
Common Mistakes
Mistake: Saying 'juga' for the tú command.
Correct: juega
Why: The informal affirmative command usually matches the third-person singular present (él/ella juega).
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Related Tenses
Present
yo: juego
Jugar is a stem-changer where the 'u' becomes 'ue' in all forms except nosotros and vosotros.
Preterite
yo: jugué
The preterite of jugar is mostly regular, but the 'yo' form changes to jugué to keep the hard 'g' sound.
Imperfect
yo: jugaba
The imperfect of jugar is regular: jugaba, jugabas, jugaba, jugábamos, jugabais, jugaban.
Future
yo: jugaré
The future tense of jugar is completely regular: just add the endings to the infinitive.
Conditional
yo: jugaría
The conditional of jugar is regular: just add -ía endings to the infinitive 'jugar'.
Present Subjunctive
yo: juegue
The present subjunctive of jugar combines the 'ue' stem change with a 'gu' spelling change.
Imperfect Subjunctive
yo: jugara
The imperfect subjunctive of jugar is based on the preterite 'ellos' form: jugara, jugaras...
Negative Imperative
yo: no juegues
The negative imperative of jugar uses the present subjunctive forms preceded by 'no'.