Reparte las brochetas.

Here reparte is most naturally the affirmative informal singular command (tú) of repartir.

So Reparte las brochetas. is telling one person, informally, to hand out or distribute the skewers.

A useful thing to know is that reparte can also be the present tense form for he/she/usted:

• Él reparte las brochetas = He hands out the skewers
• Usted reparte las brochetas = You (formal) hand out the skewers

So context tells you whether it is a command or a statement.

Because Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns when they are not needed.

In commands, this is especially common:

• Reparte las brochetas. = normal
• Tú reparte las brochetas. = possible, but more emphatic

English usually needs you, but Spanish often does not.

By context.

On its own, reparte is ambiguous:

• Reparte las brochetas. could be a command: Hand out the skewers.
• It could also be part of a statement: He/She hands out the skewers.

In real life, things like tone of voice, surrounding sentences, or the situation make it clear. In a recipe, instruction list, or spoken direction, it will usually be understood as a command.

The infinitive is repartir, meaning to distribute, to hand out, or sometimes to share out.

For a regular -ir verb, the affirmative tú command is formed with the same shape as the él/ella/usted present form:

• repartir
• él/ella/usted reparte
• tú command: reparte

So:

• repartir → reparte

The negative tú command is:

• No repartas las brochetas. = Don’t hand out the skewers.

This is different from the affirmative:

• Reparte = do it
• No repartas = don’t do it

That change is very common in Spanish commands.

Because brochetas is:

• feminine
• plural

So the correct definite article is las.

Compare:

• la brocheta = the skewer
• las brochetas = the skewers

The article must match the noun in gender and number.

In Spain, brocheta usually means a skewer or a kebab-style food item with pieces of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, etc. on a stick.

So las brochetas can refer to:

• the skewers themselves as prepared food items
• the portions of food on skewers being served

Depending on context, English might say the skewers or the kebabs.

You could, but it changes the feel.

• Reparte las brochetas sounds like you mean the specific skewers already known in the situation.
• Reparte brochetas sounds more general, like hand out skewers as a type of item.

In many everyday situations, Spanish prefers the article when talking about specific things present in the context.

In Spain, you would change the command depending on who you are addressing:

• tú: Reparte las brochetas.
• usted: Reparta las brochetas.
• vosotros: Repartid las brochetas.
• ustedes: Repartan las brochetas.

So if you are speaking to a group informally in Spain, Repartid las brochetas is the natural version.

Yes. You can replace it with las:

• Repártelas. = Hand them out.

Notice the written accent in Repártelas. It is added to keep the stress in the right place when the pronoun is attached to the command.

This is very common in Spanish:

• Reparte las brochetas
• Repártelas

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• reparte ≈ reh-PAR-teh
• las ≈ lahs
• brochetas ≈ broh-CHAY-tahs

Stress:

• rePARte
• broCHEtas

A few useful details:

• The r in reparte is a single tapped r, not the strong rolled rr
• ch is like English ch in church
• In standard Spain Spanish, there is no special tricky sound in this sentence like the z or soft c

Both can work, but they are not exactly the same.

• repartir = to distribute, hand out, share among people
• servir = to serve

So:

• Reparte las brochetas focuses on giving them out
• Sirve las brochetas focuses more on serving the food

If the idea is that someone should pass them around to people, repartir is a very natural choice.

The singular version would be:

• Reparte la brocheta.

That means Hand out the skewer or Give out the skewer, depending on context.

Compare:

• la brocheta = one skewer
• las brochetas = more than one skewer