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Because Catalan uses the present subjunctive for negative commands.
With obrir:
- Obre el transportí. = Open the carrier.
- No obris el transportí. = Don’t open the carrier.
So:
- obre = affirmative tu command
- obris = negative tu command
This is very common in Catalan and Spanish, and it often surprises English speakers.
The sentence is addressed to one person informally, so the hidden subject is tu.
Catalan often drops subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is. Here, obris tells you it is tu.
So the full version would be:
- Tu no obris el transportí...
But Catalan normally leaves tu out unless it is needed for emphasis or contrast.
If you wanted other versions, you could say:
- No obri... = formal singular
- No obriu... = plural informal
- No obrin... = formal plural