Activities for Convénceme

Published by Lyrical Language on

We’ve chosen some vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song and provided flashcards, games and exercises for you to learn and practice them.

Did you miss the analysis for this song? Find it here!

Activities

Vocabulary Excercises

We have chosen 15 words and phrases out of this song to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.

Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Vocabulary Games – Practice the vocabulary for this song using our memory and matching games and our word search puzzle.

Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.

Grammar Exercises

This song provided quite a few verbs that are conjugated in the imperative mood, which is used for giving commands. Full conjugations of these verbs can be found below. We have also provided charts of the direct and indirect object pronouns as many of the imperative verbs in this song contain attached pronouns.

You can use the following activities to learn and practice these verbs:

Imperative Flashcards – Practice the occurrences of the imperative in this song with our sets of Spanish to English and English to Spanish flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Imperative Games – Practice the occurrences of the imperative in this song using our memory and matching games.

Imperative Exercises – Practice the occurrences of the imperative in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

TermMeaningP of SContext
amanecerget light, dawn; wake upverbamanezca
camabedfem nouncama
confesarconfess, admit, own up toverbconfiésame
convencerconvince, persuade; impress, pleaseverbconvénceme
derretirthaw, meltverbderríteme
disfrutarto enjoyverbdisfrutar
enteroentire, whole; calm, self-controlled, collectedadjentera
fogatafire, campfire, bonfirefem nounfogata
hastauntil; evenprephasta
lejosfar, far away, far fromadvlejos
lunamoonfem nounluna
ratoa little while, a short time, a little bitmasc nounratito
soplarto blow, blow away; whisperverbsóplame
temorfear, dread; concern worrymasc nountemor
tiempotimemasc nountiempo

Imperative Mood

There are quite a few verbs in this song that appear in the imperative mood, the verb form used to give commands. All imperative verbs that appear in this song are conjugated in the second person singular (tú) form.

Just a few notes on the imperative:

  • As the imperative mood is used to give commands, not all pronouns have an imperative form.
    • There is no first-person singular (yo) form.
    • The only third-person pronouns used in the imperative are ‘Usted’ and ‘Ustedes’ as these are direct forms of address.
    • The first person plural (nosotros) form is typically more of a suggestion than a command and is usually translated with ‘let’s’. For example “Vamos al parque” meaning “Let’s go to the park”.
  • The personal pronouns are never used with the verbs in the imperative
  • The second person singular (tú) and plural (vosostros) forms have different affirmative and negative conjugations.
  • There is not one single stem and set of endings for all forms of the imperative.
    • The affirmative 2nd person singular (tú) uses the 3rd person singular form of the present tense.
    • The affirmative 2nd person plural (vosotros) takes the infinitive and replaces the -r with a -d.
    • All other forms use the corresponding form of the present subjunctive.
SingularPlural
1st Person1st person plural of the present subjunctive
2nd Person
Affirmative
3rd person singular of the presentTakes the infinitive and replaces the -r with a -d.
2nd Person
Negative
2nd person singular of the present subjunctive2nd person plural of the present subjunctive
3rd Person3rd person singular of the present subjunctive3rd person plural of the present subjunctive


Conjugations

Following are the full conjugations of the imperative verbs that appear in this song.

convencer = convince, persuade; impress, please

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) convenzamos / no convenzamos
2nd Person(tú) convence / no convenzas(vosotros) convenced / no convenzáis
3rd Person(usted) convenza / no convenza(ustedes) convenzan / no convenzan

llevar = to carry, take; lead, bring; spend time; wear

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) llevemos / no llevemos
2nd Person(tú) lleva / no lleves(vosotros) llevad / no llevéis
3rd Person(usted) lleve / no lleve(ustedes) lleven / no lleven

derretir = thaw, melt

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) derritamos / no derritamos
2nd Person(tú) derrite / no derritas(vosotros) derretid / no derritáis
3rd Person(usted) derrita / no derrita(ustedes) derritan / no derritan

hacer = to do, make

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) hagamos / no hagamos
2nd Person(tú) haz / no hagas(vosotros) haced / no hagáis
3rd Person(usted) haga / no haga(ustedes) hagan / no hagan

confesar = confess, admit, own up to

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) confesemos / no confesemos
2nd Person(tú) confiesa / no confieses(vosotros) confesad / no confeséis
3rd Person(usted) confiese / no confiese(ustedes) confiesen / no confiesen

dejar = to let, allow; to leave

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) dejemos / no dejemos
2nd Person(tú) deja / no dejes(vosotros) dejad / no dejéis
3rd Person(usted) deje / no deje(ustedes) dejen / no dejen

respirar = breathe; relax

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) respiremos / no respiremos
2nd Person(tú) respira / no respires(vosotros) respirad / no respiréis
3rd Person(usted) respire / no respire(ustedes) respiren / no respiren

soplar = to blow, blow away; whisper

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) soplemos / no soplemos
2nd Person(tú) sopla / no soples(vosotros) soplad / no sopléis
3rd Person(usted) sople / no sople(ustedes) soplen / no soplen

jugar = to play

SingularPlural
1st Person(nosotros) juguemos / no juguemos
2nd Person(tú) juega / no juegues(vosotros) jugad / no juguéis
3rd Person(usted) juegue / no juegue(ustedes) jueguen / no jueguen

Imperatives with Attached Object Pronouns

When an object pronoun is used with a verb in the affirmative imperative it is attached to the end of the verb. When this happens an accent must often be added to the verb to maintain the correct stress.

  • Verbs with more than one syllable require an accent when any pronouns are added. This accent will be placed on what was the next‐to‐the‐last syllable before any pronouns were attached.
  • Single syllable verbs only require the addition of an accent if more than one pronoun is added. For example, ‘dime’ (tell me) does not require an accent. Let’s say, however, that we want to say tell it to me, which requires two pronouns. The accent is then required and it becomes ‘dímelo’.

Note that this only applies to affirmative imperative verbs. With negative verbs the pronouns will be placed between the ‘no’ and the verb.

Here are the verbs from this song that have attached pronouns:

InfinitiveImperativeWith Pronoun
convencerconvenceconvénceme
llevarllevallévame
derritirderritederríteme
hacerhazhazme
confesarconfiesaconfiésame
soplarsoplasóplame

Object Pronouns

Direct Object Pronouns

SingularPlural
1st personme – menos – us
2nd personte – youos – you (all)
3rd personlo – him, it, youlos – them, you (all)
la – her, it, youlas – them, you (all


Indirect Object Pronouns

SingularPlural
1st personme – menos – us
2nd personte – youos – you (all)
3rd personle – him, her, it, youles – them, you (all)