justificar Affirmative Imperative Conjugation
justificar — to justify
Use 'justifica' (tú) or 'justifique' (usted) to command someone to provide a reason.
justificar Affirmative Imperative Forms
When to Use the Affirmative Imperative
Use this to tell someone to provide proof or an explanation, common in academic or professional settings.
Notes on justificar in the Affirmative Imperative
The 'usted', 'ustedes', and 'nosotros' forms use 'qu' (justifique) to keep the hard 'k' sound.
Example Sentences
Justifica tu respuesta en el examen.
Justify your answer on the exam.
tú
Justifique su identidad con el DNI, por favor.
Justify (prove) your identity with your ID, please.
Justifiquemos nuestras peticiones con datos.
Let's justify our requests with data.
nosotros
Common Mistakes
Mistake: Using 'justificad' for the formal 'usted'.
Correct: justifique
Why: Justificad is for 'vosotros' (informal plural in Spain). For 'usted', use the subjunctive-based form.
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Related Tenses
Present
yo: justifico
The present tense of justificar is regular: justifico, justificas, justifica, justificamos, justificáis, justifican.
Preterite
yo: justifiqué
The preterite features a spelling change in the 'yo' form: justifiqué, but otherwise follows regular -ar patterns.
Imperfect
yo: justificaba
The imperfect of justificar is fully regular: justificaba, justificabas, justificaba, justificábamos, justificabais, justificaban.
Future
yo: justificaré
The future of justificar is regular: justificaré, justificarás, justificará, justificaremos, justificaréis, justificarán.
Conditional
yo: justificaría
The conditional of justificar is regular: justificaría, justificarías, justificaría, justificaríamos, justificaríais, justificarían.
Present Subjunctive
yo: justifique
The present subjunctive changes 'c' to 'qu' in all forms: justifiqué, justifiques, justifique...
Imperfect Subjunctive
yo: justificara
The imperfect subjunctive is regular: justificara, justificaras, justificara, justificáramos, justificarais, justificaran.
Negative Imperative
yo: no justifiques
The negative imperative uses 'no' plus the present subjunctive: no justifiques, no justifique...