Word
Cuida tu salud mental.
Meaning
Take care of your mental health.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Cuida tu salud mental.
Why is cuida used here? What verb form is it?
Cuida is the affirmative tú command (imperative) of the verb cuidar. In Spanish, when you tell a friend or someone you address as tú to “take care of” something, you use the third-person singular form of the present indicative:
- Present indicative (él/ella): cuida
- Affirmative tú command: cuida
Why isn’t it cuides?
Cuides is the subjunctive form, which you use for:
- Negative tú commands (No cuides).
- Certain subordinate clauses (Espero que cuides…).
Affirmative tú commands, however, mirror the él/ella present indicative, so you drop the s from cuidas and get cuida.
Why is tu written without an accent? Isn’t tú with an accent “you”?
Spanish distinguishes the possessive adjective tu (no accent) from the subject pronoun tú (with accent).
- tu = your (possessive)
- tú = you (subject)
Here, tu salud mental means your mental health, so no accent is needed.
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