Is It Recommend or Suggest?

Recommend is less formal and more personal. You use it when suggesting something based on your own experience. Suggest is the less formal of all three verbs, you use it when talking about ideas, opinion, etc.

When to Use recommend or suggest?

Suggest is more informal and is used to express an idea or opinion. Recommend is more personal and is used when the speaker is giving a suggestion based on personal experience.

How do you use recommend?

Recommend is often used with more positive advice to tell somebody about possible benefits and advise with more negative advice to warn somebody about possible dangers: He advised reading the book before seeing the movie. I would recommend against going out on your own.