Spanish · Chapter 21 · Lesson 15 · Grammar primer
Negative commands
no hables, no comas, no venga - every negative command uses the present-subjunctive form, and the pronouns move in front of the verb.
The short version
Every negative command borrows the subjunctive
You already know how to forbid things, because a negative command is just the present subjunctive with no in front. No hables, no comas, no vengas, no salgas. The affirmative tu form is the odd one out and does not survive the negation: ven becomes no vengas, haz becomes no hagas, di becomes no digas.
No vengas tarde.
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