Imperatives singular

The singular imperative is how Latin gives a command to one person: "Look!", "Come!", "Read this!". You will see it constantly in dialogue, teaching, and inscriptions. The good news is that it is easy to form - for most verbs you simply take the present infinitive and drop the -re ending.

Conjugation	Infinitive	Singular command
1st	amare	ama! - love!
2nd	monere	mone! - warn!
3rd	regere	rege! - rule!
4th	audire	audi! - listen!

A few everyday verbs are irregular and shorten further: dicere gives dic! (say!), ducere gives duc! (lead!), facere gives fac! (do!), and ferre gives fer! (carry!).

Examples: Veni! - Come! Specta lunam! - Look at the moon!

For English speakers: Latin does not add the word "you" to a command, and there is no helper like "do" - the bare verb form is the command. So audi is a complete order, "Listen!". Also keep this singular command separate from the third-person audit ("he listens"): the imperative audi ends in the bare stem vowel, while audit carries the -t ending.