Word
Revisa la documentación antes de salir de casa.
Meaning
Check the paperwork before leaving home.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Revisa la documentación antes de salir de casa.
antes de
before
salir
to leave
de
from
la casa
the home
Questions & Answers about Revisa la documentación antes de salir de casa.
Why is revisa used here? Is it a command?
Yes. Revisa is the tú imperative of revisar, so it means check / review as a command addressed to one person in an informal way.
So the sentence is telling someone:
- Revisa... = Check... / Review...
If you were speaking more formally to one person, you would say:
- Revise la documentación...
If you were speaking to several people in Spain, you might say:
- Revisad la documentación... for vosotros
- Revisen la documentación... for ustedes
Why is it revisa and not revisas?
Because revisa here is an imperative form, not a normal present-tense statement.
Compare:
- Revisas la documentación. = You check the documentation.
This is a statement. - Revisa la documentación. = Check the documentation.
This is a command.
For regular -ar verbs, the tú command often looks like the él/ella/usted present form:
What exactly does la documentación mean here?