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Saca la basura hoy.

Saca la basura hoy.
Take out the trash today.
From Lesson 61:Affirmative commands (tú, vosotros)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of Saca la basura hoy.

hoy
today
sacar
to take out
la basura
the trash

Questions & Answers about Saca la basura hoy.

Why is it saca and not sacas if I am telling 'you' to do something?
Saca is a command. When you tell one person (the informal tú) to do something, regular verbs drop the final -s from the normal 'you' form. So tú sacas (you take out) becomes the command saca (take out!).
How would I change this sentence to tell a group of people to take out the trash?
To give a command to a group (the informal plural vosotros used in Spain), you take the basic infinitive form of the verb (sacar) and replace the final -r with a -d. So you would say sacad la basura hoy.
I learned that tomar and llevar mean 'to take'. Why are we using sacar here?
While tomar means to take in the sense of grabbing or consuming, and llevar means to carry or transport, sacar specifically means to take out, extract, or remove something. Since you are moving the trash from inside to outside, sacar is the exact verb you need.
How do I pronounce the word hoy?
In Spanish, the letter h is always silent. You pronounce hoy just like the English sound 'oy' (rhyming with the word 'boy').

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