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Help with subjunctive, por favor!?

I kinda get the general idea of the subjunctive form

but it's still hard to comprehend

can you pleaz give me a good explanation

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Okay. I guess it depends on what type of subjunctive you are looking for. The simplest way (which is probably more complicated) I can describe it to you is that it's used when saying things like, "I wish that you ate...or I hope that you cleaned..." It's used to express feelings or emotions like "I hope that/Espero que..." or to insist on doing things, like, "We insist that / Insistimos que..." Also you can use el subjuntivo to tell people to do things like, "My teacher advises me to practice more/ Mi profesor me aconseja que practique mas."

    Do you see a pattern here? Everytime you say a need, want, emotion you also attach "that/que" and then change the stems in present tense. I guess how I learned it was that if it's an -ar verb, it takes the stems of an -er/-ir verb. And if it's an -er/-ir verb, it takes the stems of an -ar verb. You know, not including the irregular verbs.

    I guess that's all for now. Um, I hope I helped a little bit, like I said before, I don't know how far you are in the language and what type of subjunctive you are learning. I just gave you the present tense subjunctive. If you have any questions just let me know.

    Source(s): I used my old Spanish text. "Arcos y Alamedas." By Scott, Foresman and Company. Copyrighted in 1989.
  • 1 decade ago

    The subjunctive form in Spanish is a fairly close parallel to the English subjunctive.

    For example, take the English phrase "It is necessary that he do his homework." The Spanish translation of this phrase also uses the subjunctive, as in "Es necesario que él haga su tarea."

    The Spanish "que" in a sentence in this manner will trigger the subjunctive case. Hopefully this has helped....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well in japanese u just put 'datebahyoe' to the end to make it lyke more forceful and manly

    spanish is probly the same, they just copied japanese anyway

    Source(s): japanese pro
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