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Attends au moins cinq minutes.

Attends au moins cinq minutes.
Wait at least five minutes.
From Lesson 96:Sequence connectors (d'abord, puis...)·French

Questions & Answers about Attends au moins cinq minutes.

Why does attends end in an 's' here? I thought we dropped the 's' for command words with tu.
You only drop the 's' in the tu command form for regular verbs that end in -er (like mange or parle). Because attendre is an -re verb, it keeps its 's' in the imperative form: attends.
What does au moins mean, and why is it au instead of just à?
Au moins is a fixed phrase that means 'at least'. It translates literally to 'at the least', which is why it uses au (the mandatory combination of à + le). It is a very handy phrase for giving instructions!
In English we usually say 'wait FOR five minutes'. Why is there no French word for 'for' in this sentence?
In French, you do not use pour to say you are waiting 'for' a certain amount of time. You can either use pendant (during), or just state the duration directly as we do here. Dropping the preposition entirely and just saying cinq minutes is completely natural and very common.
If I want to use a sequential word from this lesson like ensuite (then) with this instruction, where does it go?
You can place it right at the beginning of the sentence, which is very common for giving a list of instructions: Ensuite, attends au moins cinq minutes. You could also place it right after the verb: Attends ensuite au moins cinq minutes.

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