Breakdown of ¡No me esperes! Voy a la peluquería a comprar el champú.
no
no / not
comprar
to buy
ir
to go
a
to
Questions & Answers about ¡No me esperes! Voy a la peluquería a comprar el champú.
Why is me placed before esperes instead of attached to the end?
In Spanish, when giving a negative command (telling someone not to do something), object pronouns like me must go directly before the verb. If it were a positive command ("Wait for me!"), the pronoun would be attached to the end: ¡Espérame! But because it is a negative command, the pronoun goes between No and the verb: ¡No me esperes!
Why does esperar end in -es (esperes) if it's an -ar verb and the subject is tú?
For negative commands with tú, Spanish swaps the usual vowel endings. Since esperar is an -ar verb, its negative command ending for tú changes to -es. If you were telling someone to wait (a positive command), you would use the normal vowel: ¡Espera!
The English translation says "wait for me", but there is no word for "for" in the Spanish sentence. Why?
The Spanish verb esperar inherently means "to wait for" (as well as "to hope" or "to expect"). You don't need to add a preposition like por or para to say "for". Me esperes all by itself translates perfectly to "you wait for me".
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