The Imperative (Commands)

Giving instructions or commands - "Open the door," "Come here" - uses a shortened verb form with the pronoun dropped. The Sie-form is the easiest of the three: it's identical to a normal question with the word order flipped.

Sie-imperative: easiest, and the one you'll use most

Take the normal Sie-conjugation, drop "Sie" to the end instead of the front... actually keep Sie, just move the verb first - identical to a yes/no question, but read as a command by context/tone:

Kommen Sie bitte! (Please come!)
Gehen Sie geradeaus. (Go straight ahead. - Lesson 17)

du-imperative: drop -st, often drop -e too

Take the du-form, remove -st, and in casual speech the final -e is often dropped too:

ihr-imperative: same as the ihr-form, no pronoun

Kommt! (you all, come!)

Bitte softens every command

Adding bitte ("please") is the standard way to make any imperative polite rather than blunt - genuinely used far more often in German requests than commands without it.

Cross-checked against the Goethe-Institut A1 practice materials.