Free Spanish Commands Quiz
This Spanish commands quiz asks for one command at a time: you see (tú) decir + me + lo, and you type dímelo. You choose who you're talking to, whether the command is affirmative or negative, how many pronouns it has and which verbs come up, including the eight irregular tú commands (di, haz, ve, pon, sal, sé, ten and ven). After every answer, right or wrong, a one-line reason says why the command takes that form. It's free, needs no signup and works on a phone.
How the Spanish commands quiz works
You make four choices before you start, and nothing is selected for you.
- Who you're talking to: tú for one friend (habla), usted for one person you'd speak to formally (hable), ustedes for “you all” (hablen) and nosotros for “let's” (hablemos). Vosotros (hablad) is the “you all” of Spain only, and it stays out unless you select it.
- Affirmative or negative: telling someone to do something (habla) or not to do it (no hables). Pick both to mix them.
- Pronouns: none (habla, di, ven), one (hazlo, dime, siéntate) or two (dímelo, dáselo, póntelo). A reflexive verb's own te or se counts as one, which makes siéntate a one-pronoun command.
- Verbs: any of five sets: regular (hablar → habla, no hables), spelling change (buscar → busque, no busques), the 8 irregular tú commands (di, haz, ve, pon, sal, sé, ten, ven), other irregular and stem-changing (pensar → piensa, dormir → no duermas) and reflexive (sentarse → siéntate, no te sientes).
Before you start, the quiz shows how many commands match your choices. Each question gives the person, the verb and any pronouns: (tú) decir + me + lo. You type dímelo. A negative question starts with no, and (tú) no decir + me + lo needs no me lo digas. A line under the question gives the verb's meaning and what the pronoun stands for, as in “to say, tell · lo = el secreto.” The questions are shuffled, and each one comes up once before any repeats. If you pick more than one pronoun count, they take turns.
How the quiz marks your answers
Accents count, but capitals and the ¡ and ! marks don't. If you type dimelo for dímelo, the answer is marked wrong, and the quiz tells you to check the accents. A subject pronoun after the command is fine, as in hable usted. A negative command has to start with no. Two common slips get a note of their own. If you write the pronouns apart in an affirmative command, as in di me lo, the note explains that they join the verb as one word. If you write le lo, it points you to se lo.
After every answer, right or wrong, you get a one-line reason. For dímelo it reads: “Decir is one of the 8 irregular tú commands: di. Both pronouns join the end, indirect before direct, with an accent to keep the stress: dí-me-lo.” You don't need a Spanish keyboard: buttons on the page type á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ, ü and ¡. Your score stays on screen. A quiz has no fixed length, so stop whenever you like. You'll then see a list of the commands you missed, and “Practice my mistakes” runs only those again.
Commands with pronouns, and their accents
In an affirmative command the pronouns join the end of the verb, and in a negative one they go before it: dímelo, but no me lo digas. Each pronoun adds a syllable at the end, and the command often needs a written accent to keep the stress where it was, as in dí-me-lo. The reasons after each answer cover the other rules you'll meet: “Le becomes se before lo,” as in dáselo; “Nosotros drops its -s before nos: sentemos + nos → sentémonos”; “Vosotros drops its -d before os: sentad + os → sentaos”; and “Irse keeps the d: id + os → idos.”
Pronouns only come up where the verb takes them in real Spanish, so the quiz won't ask you for duérmetelo. The forms come from the same Wiktionary-based verb tables as our Spanish conjugation tables, which cover 600 common verbs. They follow current RAE spelling (the rules of the Real Academia Española): deme has no accent, and the vosotros forms are sentaos and idos. The quiz also accepts iros, which you hear a lot.
The quiz, the worksheets and the chart
The quiz is for practice on screen, one command at a time. For a class, the Spanish commands worksheets print the same verbs and rules on paper in four exercises, from writing the command to filling in a chart, with an answer key on its own page. To see every form and rule in one place, read the Spanish commands chart, which covers the irregular tú commands, the formal commands and where the pronouns go. For other tenses of the same verbs, try the Spanish verb conjugation quiz.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Spanish commands quiz free?
Yes. There's no signup and no account, and it works on a phone.
Which verbs and commands are in the quiz?
It has 494 verbs as plain commands, 59 reflexive verbs and 96 verbs with object pronouns, which make 12,298 different commands in all. They cover tú, usted, ustedes, nosotros and vosotros, affirmative and negative, with none, one or two pronouns. The forms come from the same Wiktionary-based verb tables as our Spanish conjugation tools, which cover 600 common verbs.
Can I practice only the irregular tú commands?
Yes. Select tú and the set called "The 8 irregular tú commands," and you'll get di, haz, ve, pon, sal, sé, ten and ven. Add one or two pronouns, and you'll practice forms such as dime and dímelo.
Do accents count?
Yes. Capitals and the ¡ and ! marks don't count, but dimelo for dímelo is marked wrong, and the quiz tells you to check the accents. Buttons on the page type á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ, ü and ¡, so you don't need a Spanish keyboard.
Where do the pronouns go in a Spanish command?
In an affirmative command they join the end of the verb as one word, with the indirect pronoun before the direct one: dímelo. In a negative command they go before the verb, after no: no me lo digas. Before lo, le becomes se, as in dáselo.
Does the quiz include vosotros and vos?
Vosotros, yes, if you select it. It's the "you all" of Spain (hablad), and the quiz follows current RAE spelling for it, such as sentaos and idos, while also accepting iros. Vos isn't in the quiz, which uses tú only.
Why are some verbs left out?
They're left out on purpose. Weather and impersonal verbs such as llover and gustar aren't in the quiz, and neither are verbs not used as commands, such as poder, soler and haber, or a few violent verbs. Some verbs, such as tardar and temer, come up only in the negative (no tardes, no temas), and pronouns only come up where a verb takes them, so you won't be asked for duérmetelo.
Can I practice only the commands I got wrong?
Yes. Stop whenever you like, and you'll see the commands you missed. Practice my mistakes runs only those again.
Licenses and credits
Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). Verbs are ranked by Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).