Stopping actions with dejar de
When you need someone to stop what they are doing, use the verb dejar, followed by the preposition de and an infinitive.
| Can you stop talking? Your annoying noise is ruining the scene. | ¿Puedes dejar de hablar? Tu ruido molesto arruina la escena. |
Conjugate dejar for the person who needs to stop, and leave the main action verb in the infinitive:
| Stop using the cell phone and stop kicking my seat! | ¡Dejen de usar el celular y dejen de patear mi asiento! |
| Please, stop whispering; we cannot concentrate. | Por favor, dejen de susurrar; no podemos concentrarnos. |
When paired with verbs like deber (must) or necesitar (to need), dejar stays in its infinitive form:
| He must stop looking at the cell phone because it ruins the movie. | Él debe dejar de mirar el celular porque arruina la película. |
| It bothers us when you kick the seat; you need to stop doing that. | Nos molesta cuando pateas el asiento; necesitas dejar de hacer eso. |
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