El Subjunctivo Flashcards
3 Moods
- Indicative
- Imperative
- Subjunctive
The Indicative Mood
- Present/present progressive/imperfect/imperfect progressive/preterit tenses
- expresses truth and reality
- indicates and reports something
- concrete (what it is, what exists, what one can see, hear, touch, smell, think, believe, etc.
The Subjunctive Mood
- Present subjunctive tenses (WEIRDO)
- expresses doubts, wishes, hopes, requests, commands, etc.
- there is always some aspect not known or not controllable.
- not concrete (not real)
Main clause contains:
MUST be a change in subject in the dependent/subordinate clause. (Subjunctive is ONLY in the dependent or subordinate clause)
WEIRDO
- Want
- Emotion
- Impersonal expression
- Request
- Doubt
- Ojalá
Sentence structure of subjunctivo
Main clause (WEIRDO) + que + Dependent/subordinate clause
-AR verbs
e
es
e
emos
éis
en
Er/Ir verbs
a
as
a
amos
áis
an
Stem changing rule
Only -ir stem changing verbs will change in the Nosotros and VOsotros from (e-i) (e-u). -Ar and -er verbs are “shoe verbs”
Irregular present subjunctive
DISHES
- Dar
- Ir
- Saber
- Haber
- Estar
- Ser
Dar
dé
des
dé
demos
deis
den
Ir
vaya
vayas
vaya
vayamos
vayáis
vayan
Saber
sepa
sepas
sepa
sepamos
sepáis
sepan
Haber
haya
hayas
haya
hayamos
hayáis
hayan
Estar
esté
estés
esté
estemos
estéis
estén
ser
sea
seas
sea
seamos
seáis
Sean
To advice
aconsejarse
to wish
desear
to matter, be important
importarse
to insist
insistir (en)
to order
mandarse
to need
necesitar
to request, ask for
pedirse (e-i)
to prefer
preferir (e-ie)
to prohibit
prohibirse
to want
querer (e-ie)
to recommend
recomendarse (e-ie)
to beg
rogarse (o-ue)
to suggest
sugerirse (e-ie)
It’s good that
Es bueno que
It’s important that
es importante que
it’s bad that
es malo que
it’s better that
es mejor que
its necessary that
es necesario que
it’s urgent that
es urgente que
