Imperative

The imperative comes from the 3rd person plural of the present tense. Drop the ending: robia → rob, píšu → píš, čakajú → čakaj, dajú → daj. If the stem ends in two consonants, add -i: sadnú → sadni si, vezmú → vezmi.

Then add -te for vy and -me for my (let's): robte, robme, čakajte, sadnite si.

Some common verbs have special forms: jesť → jedz, povedať → povedz, pomôcť → pomôž, prísť → príď, byť → buď.

The verb ísť has two imperatives:

• choď, choďte – go (away, somewhere): Choďte rovno!
• poď, poďte – come (here, with me): Poď sem!

For let's go, both poďme and choďme are used.