I love how i’ve been learning spanish for so long now and never heard about it, only came across it every now and then. It feels like the spanish language dropped this like an annoying update to mess with my life.
The subjective really blows your mind if you're a native English speaker. All romance languages have it. Spanish is the only romance language that takes the subjunctive seriously.
My teacher said just one thing that made me understand the difference between subjunctivo and indicativo. Subjunctivo refers to some sort of actions that are not coming from me and are wanted/expected from outside (another person). Quiero llamarte. ( I want ME to call someone). Quiero que me llames (I want YOU to call me) This "YOU" is outside the speaker. "YOU" is expected/required to do something. It's not directly under the speaker will/control. That's why it's subjunctve. I don't know if this makes any sense to anyone but it helps me.
Como profesora nativa de español, siempre busco nuevas maneras de enseñar a mis alumnos de habla extranjera, y de entender mi idioma más que de aprenderlo con normas y listas interminables, ya que me parece una manera más amena de aprenderlo. Con esto en mente, buscaba cómo explicar el subjuntivo desde el punto de vista de un no nativo y me salió tu vídeo. Es muy beneficioso entender el punto de vista de quien recibe mi mensaje y tu vídeo me ha servido para esto. Muchas gracias y un saludo desde Inglaterra.
The subjunctive mood is far more important and widely used in Spanish than it is in English. When it is used in English, it is the same conjugation as the past simple tense and many English speakers might not be aware that they are even using the subjunctive. For example, the well-known phrase "Wish you were here" uses the subjunctive form of the verb to be. Another example would be: "I wouldn't do it if I were you" - this uses conditional then subjunctive. The equivalent phrases in Spanish would be: Me gustaría que estuvieras/estuvieses aquí (which uses the combination of conditional with subjunctive, whereas the English phrase only uses subjunctive). (Yo) No lo haría si (yo) fuera tu (also uses a combination of conditional with subjunctive - which is typical when expressing hypothetical situations. Notice that the subject pronoun (Yo) is usually omitted, whereas in English the subject pronoun must be used Spanish has three subjunctive moods (present, imperfect and future) and two tenses composed of the subjunctive (present perfect and past perfect - when they are expressed with a subjunctive mood in the auxiliary verb) plus the imperative (for Usted forms) and negative imperative which use some conjugations from the subjunctive - but are not subjunctive moods when used as imperatives!
Technically a future perfect subjunctive tense exists too, but it is not really used even the future subjunctive is mostly used for expressions and literature, or at least in my variety of Spanish it is like that and we use the present subjunctive instead, I am currently learning Portuguese and they use it way more than we do.
SIN QUE is not one I had encountered thank you. ME ALEGRO DE QUE tu canal exista. Encuentro su contenido muy útil SIEMPRE QUE me tome el tiempo para practicar!
When I first watched this I had no idea what was going on, what any of it meant, or how I could possibly learn it. Now, over a month later, I actually followed along and better understand just how much I don't know and how much I have left to learn! Yay? Gracias como siempre Connor por este video excelente
Incredible!!! Please continue uploading, your videos are amazing and I am confident I will do well because of this very well made and straightforward video unlike many that I have watch in the past. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for this excellent video presented clearly and concisely. I like that you show the examples on screen. Many sources focus on how to conjugate but what I struggle with is discerning WHEN to use subjunctive. This was helpful!
Holy Cow!! Conner, your videos are absolutely FANTASTIC!!! Your explanations are always clear and equally importantly; concise! Espero que estés bien! Are you the same Conner from many years ago who lived in Colombia and gave yourself a 1 month challenge to learn Spanish? If so, I’m thrilled to see you’re still around and THRIVING! Bien trabajo!
Thanks Warren! Really appreciate the kind words. No, that was a different Connor -- I believe the video you're talking about is from @ConnorGrooms from Baselang! I've heard great things about them.
@@BreakthroughSpanishWell ,I thoroughly enjoy your videos and am in admiration of your skill set to make everything seem more understandable and achievable ! (I’m an elementary school teacher and am aware of how challenging it can be to effectively teach concepts.) Keep up the FANTASTIC WORK! You know how to reach your learners! Best regards, Your new loyal subscriber!
Useful advice. I struggle with irregular verbs in the subjunctive. With Quiero que, think of you doing the wanting to someone else, or someone else doing it for you, or someone else with the correct form of Querer. The Subjunctive and Preterite are the hardest to conjugate, excluding rare tenses.
I’m just learning this mood, but I had noticed the “oppositeness” of the endings mentioned. Nice to hear it’s a general rule. Makes it much easier to grok. 😊
Very nice lesson. Here in Spain there are still 'groups of people' with less studies and not a big interest in language who don't use this correct mode of the verb (they tend to use conditionals when subjuntive is needed). Not going to put examples as it is a very bad use of verb modes. xD Just to note that some, small amount, spanish speakers can make bad use, take care! Xd
Thanks! Good point. It’s good for Spanish learners to remember that native speakers (of any language) also make mistakes, and that making mistakes (especially in complicated things like this) is totally normal and just part of learning
Hey what was the name of the video you made with the most common words used in spanish? I haven't been able to find it by scrolling through the content. Gracias
Al menos entendí casi todas las oraciones de ejemplo que usaste 😅 y aquí ya tengo dos otros problemas más 🥲 no sé cuando usar "comprender" o "entender" y no sé cuando usar el pasado con "haber" (he usado) o la otra forma del pasado (usaste) Ahh.....aprender español es muy divertido...😄
@@shamantiger8977 Creo que uso sobre todo "comprender" para idiomas y "entender" para p.ej. música o conferencias. Entonces para mi "comprender" tiene más el sentido de poder entender algo lingüísticamente y "entender" que ser capaz de entender algo en términos de contenido o acústica. Pero bueno....si son básicamente sinónimos, obviamente me simplifica enormemente la cosa. Gracias
@@nickyg7557 sinónimos. Tambien puedo decir ,no comprendo la música de led zeppelin o tambien puedo decir ,no entiendo la música de led zeppelin. Es lo mismo. Aunque cuidado. Que la palabra comprender tambien tiene otros significados según el contexto de la frase.
Gracias por esta lección. Y también, después de “cuando” en algunas situaciones, verdad? “Te veré cuando llegues.” “Lo creeré cuando lo vea.” Son correctos?
From what I can gather after studying Spanish for about 14 months and realizing that no one really knows what it is or how to use it (including native speakers) is that the subjunctive can't be learned per se but has to be absorbed through immersion in the language and trial and error.
To other native English speakers, the advice I give to be able to "SEE" the subjunctive in English, is practice first (in English) with _ANY_ verb in the 3rd person singular _OR_ our verb "to be" itself. You need to get the keyword "THAT" into what you want to say too. The reason for me saying _the 3rd person singular_ is it's the only form in English which differs from the indicative. Examples: _I want Sharron to pay the (restaurant) bill_ rewritten with the word THAT in the sentence in English would be _I want that Sharron _*_PAY_*_ the bill_ {Can you see the S is missing from the verb pay? it's not Sharron payS but 'that Sharron pay'}. I hope that you *be* on time. {not _are_ but correctly, _be._ And co-incidentally this aligns with Spanish using the subjunctive in negative commands too}
@@BreakthroughSpanish FWIW I now understand that modally _WERE TO_ aligns as our modal way of matching the past subjunctive: _If I _*_were to_*_ win the lottery, I'd go to South America for a 6 month holiday._ Some will question this and say it's using the infinitive but consider _I _*_used TO_*_ live in London_ alongside _I _*_ought TO_*_ study harder_ and _I _*_dared TO_*_ highlight my observations_ - these are all modal verb constructions (not pure infinitives). As a native speaker, English sometimes hides away from us the ways we really do have of actually matching the tenses and moods in the Romance languages. While it's in my mind, further consider that "If I were to...." isn't the past of 'be' in the indicative (which is *I was* ). *... that + **_doer_** + were to....* = past subjunctive in English.
Oh wow, I've never heard of this comparison before, thanks! This helps so much because I know that "que/that" is the trigger for subjunctive, but am never sure when it gets added in when it's not always necessary to have it in the English version.
@@pauleff3312 Great points, subjunctive does exist in English in a limited way (compared to romance languages), and "If I were to..." is a good example
@@BreakthroughSpanish Ironically only today a Hispanohablante friend from Perú sent me a (Marvel type) comic to ask me for help with translating this sentence in the story: _I'm still not sure about this caper. If _*_I told_*_ it the way I think it happened nobody would believe it so I'll just give you the facts if that's what they are and let you make up your own mind!_ "If I told it" in the paragraph above completely threw my friend as it will you if you try to translate this word for word as it is written. "If I told it" in this comic is grammatically incorrect in English - but I accept that it's constructed and written down in a way we native English speakers generally say almost all the time. Change the sentence to "If I *WERE TO* tell it" then read the whole thing again - there is our modal verb required English subjunctive correctly revealed and translating into Spansh is easy: Si lo dijera exactemente el camino que pienso lo pasó, ninguna lo creería, entoces voy a darte los hechos .....
Cada vez es más común que en español "copiemos" algunas estructuras del inglés, aunque esto no sea adecuado. Por ejemplo, "to make a mistake". Decir "hacer un error" es un calco del inglés. La forma correcta es "cometer un error". Pasa lo mismo con "to make sense". Cada vez es más común escuchar en español "hacer sentido", pese a que la forma correcta es "tener sentido". "Eso me hace sentido" suena bien, pero es un calco del inglés; deberíamos decir "eso tiene sentido para mí". Saludos y gracias por tu canal.
Parece que eso pasa en muchos idiomas por la influencia del inglés hoy en día. Pero también pasa al revés - recién leí un articulo sobre "Miami English" que decía que allí se puede escuchar "get down from the car" (o sea, una transferencia de "bájate del auto" en vez de get out of the car). Es natural que los idiomas cambien y se adapten a lo que pasa en el entorno de los hablantes, y muchos hablantes, sobre todo jóvenes, están cada vez más en contacto con el inglés en su día a día. Pero igual no deja de sonar extraño (y tal vez malo, dependiendo de la persona) escuchar ciertas frases que son obvios calcos del inglés, como "hacer sentido". Saludos, gracias por tu comentario.
Yo evito cuanto puedo usar esa clase de lenguaje. Los que hablan así son los nacidos en Estados Unidos de padres hispanos, y lamentablemente muchos que de por sí ya hablaban mal el español adoptan las formas incorrectas de expresarse y pues se va propagando por todas partes.
Subjunctive is not a tense, it is a mood. You can have subjunctive in the present tense, the preterite tense, and even the future tense (even if no one uses it anymore). And let's not forget that there are perfect tenses in the subjunctive as well. The subjunctive mood is the opposite to the indicative mood.
The 'X que + you/him/they/etc' formula will always trigger the subjunctive: Espero que + any other people but yourself Deseo que.... Es importante que... Es possible que... Etc. Cuando + you/he/they/etc is also another trigger Cuando puedas.... Etc. The 'it's a desire or a wish' explanation we always hear from non-native speakers is not the best way to look at it.
TV is hard! Lots of background noise, slang/very specific vocabulary, wide variety of speaking styles, etc. Even in English I use subtitles for some shows.
Los verbos que indican una necesidad o una obligación de hacer algo se llaman "verbos modales". Estos verbos modifican el significado del verbo principal en la oración para expresar la obligación, la posibilidad, la capacidad, la permisividad, etc. Algunos ejemplos comunes de verbos modales son: "deber", "tener que", "poder", "querer", "necesitar", "soler", entre otros. Estos verbos a menudo se utilizan con un infinitivo para expresar la acción específica que se debe realizar. Por ejemplo: Debes estudiar para el examen. Tienes que terminar tu tarea. Puedes venir a mi casa después del trabajo. Quiero ir al cine esta noche. Necesitas comprar leche en el supermercado. Solía practicar yoga todos los días.
Espero que tengas buena suerte. It’s tengas, because it is and an irregular verb has an influence on it, -ar verbs change with an e with yo form and -er and -ir verbs change to a in yo form. It’s explained near the end of the video.
Just like the text books you also fail to mention the first person SINGULAR exception when talking about the direct reversal of endings between presente indicativo and presente subjuntivo. The first person singular DOES NOT follow the reversal pattern and why both YOU and ALL TEXT BOOKS fail to note that exception baffles me beyond belief. When you are learning Spanish, as I am, we hang on every single word because we are not yet able to determine its overall importance. When you teach, you have to cover ALL bases and leave nothing to ambiguity. In presente indicativo, the first person singular uses an "o" ending for ALL THREE verbs (-ar, -er, -ir). In presente subjuntivo, the first person singular uses "e" for the -ar verbs and uses "a" for both the -er and -ir verbs. Thus, there is NO DIRECT REVERSAL for first person singular. Why you fail to note that is not understood by me (and others). You simply, and blithely, state that there is a direct reversal. There is NOT. Things like this, whereby I am forced to disagree with the "master linguist", drive me nuts because I KNOW that you must be wrong but HOW can I say that you are wrong, because you are the teacher!!!! It is not only you, but ALL TEXT BOOKS also. THAT drives me nuts. - David Lyga
Why not in 5 seconds? No pain no gain, amigo. It takes a fair while to learn and practice this tricky mode properly. but well, it's worth the SUSTAINED effort.
I love seeing so many English people trying to learn my language.
It fills me with joy.
Yo soy Croata y estoy aprendiendo castellano
@@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274 que tal es? Es fácil para tí?
Quizás, quisiste decir gente que son inglés hablantes. Toda el mundo que habla inglés no es un inglés.😅
@@peteymax verdad!
He's not English, he's American.
I love how i’ve been learning spanish for so long now and never heard about it, only came across it every now and then. It feels like the spanish language dropped this like an annoying update to mess with my life.
I know I literally figured out about subjunctive words like 5 years in 😭😭 (some parts of those years I wasn’t actively learning tho haha)
Same i thought I had it down until I saw the subjunctive lol
If it never came up then that probably indicates it doesn't matter too much that you weren't/aren't familiar with it!
@ oh its important, it changed the meaning of the sentence.
The subjective really blows your mind if you're a native English speaker. All romance languages have it. Spanish is the only romance language that takes the subjunctive seriously.
My teacher said just one thing that made me understand the difference between subjunctivo and indicativo. Subjunctivo refers to some sort of actions that are not coming from me and are wanted/expected from outside (another person). Quiero llamarte. ( I want ME to call someone). Quiero que me llames (I want YOU to call me) This "YOU" is outside the speaker. "YOU" is expected/required to do something. It's not directly under the speaker will/control. That's why it's subjunctve. I don't know if this makes any sense to anyone but it helps me.
That's very helpful, thank you for sharing!
So helpful to those who find this hard....which is 98% of the Eng. speaking population🙂
Im from Spain, ir you Need help y can help you
Como profesora nativa de español, siempre busco nuevas maneras de enseñar a mis alumnos de habla extranjera, y de entender mi idioma más que de aprenderlo con normas y listas interminables, ya que me parece una manera más amena de aprenderlo.
Con esto en mente, buscaba cómo explicar el subjuntivo desde el punto de vista de un no nativo y me salió tu vídeo. Es muy beneficioso entender el punto de vista de quien recibe mi mensaje y tu vídeo me ha servido para esto.
Muchas gracias y un saludo desde Inglaterra.
The subjunctive mood is far more important and widely used in Spanish than it is in English. When it is used in English, it is the same conjugation as the past simple tense and many English speakers might not be aware that they are even using the subjunctive. For example, the well-known phrase "Wish you were here" uses the subjunctive form of the verb to be. Another example would be: "I wouldn't do it if I were you" - this uses conditional then subjunctive.
The equivalent phrases in Spanish would be:
Me gustaría que estuvieras/estuvieses aquí (which uses the combination of conditional with subjunctive, whereas the English phrase only uses subjunctive).
(Yo) No lo haría si (yo) fuera tu (also uses a combination of conditional with subjunctive - which is typical when expressing hypothetical situations. Notice that the subject pronoun (Yo) is usually omitted, whereas in English the subject pronoun must be used
Spanish has three subjunctive moods (present, imperfect and future) and two tenses composed of the subjunctive (present perfect and past perfect - when they are expressed with a subjunctive mood in the auxiliary verb) plus the imperative (for Usted forms) and negative imperative which use some conjugations from the subjunctive - but are not subjunctive moods when used as imperatives!
thanks for the detailed breakdown, Mark!
Technically a future perfect subjunctive tense exists too, but it is not really used even the future subjunctive is mostly used for expressions and literature, or at least in my variety of Spanish it is like that and we use the present subjunctive instead, I am currently learning Portuguese and they use it way more than we do.
SIN QUE is not one I had encountered thank you.
ME ALEGRO DE QUE tu canal exista. Encuentro su contenido muy útil SIEMPRE QUE me tome el tiempo para practicar!
Every once and a while someone just makes it all click, thank you my friend
for real
When I first watched this I had no idea what was going on, what any of it meant, or how I could possibly learn it. Now, over a month later, I actually followed along and better understand just how much I don't know and how much I have left to learn! Yay?
Gracias como siempre Connor por este video excelente
Thank you!!! Espero que tengas un buen día
Incredible!!! Please continue uploading, your videos are amazing and I am confident I will do well because of this very well made and straightforward video unlike many that I have watch in the past. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for this excellent video presented clearly and concisely. I like that you show the examples on screen. Many sources focus on how to conjugate but what I struggle with is discerning WHEN to use subjunctive. This was helpful!
Thanks Marjorie! So glad it was helpful
Great video! I really appreciated the amount of example sentences along with the quick explanations!
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching
Beautifully explained, happy I found your video!
Espero que tengas un buen dia! Gracias por el video 🎉
Me ayudó mucho tu video. Mil gracias
You’re a great teacher, thanks, hope you keep it up
thanks Aaron! appreciate it
Great quick overview. Thanks
I really like listening to your voice and your explanations were clear and useful.
Thank you!
Agreed
Me encanta tu explicación. Gracias. Lo voy a usar con mis alumnos. = )
Incredible Work
Amazing Service
Thank You Great Man
Simple, clear, and concise. Good job, my fellow güero.
Holy Cow!! Conner, your videos are absolutely FANTASTIC!!! Your explanations are always clear and equally importantly; concise!
Espero que estés bien!
Are you the same Conner from many years ago who lived in Colombia and gave yourself a 1 month challenge to learn Spanish?
If so, I’m thrilled to see you’re still around and THRIVING!
Bien trabajo!
Thanks Warren! Really appreciate the kind words. No, that was a different Connor -- I believe the video you're talking about is from @ConnorGrooms from Baselang! I've heard great things about them.
@@BreakthroughSpanishWell ,I thoroughly enjoy your videos and am in admiration of your skill set to make everything seem more understandable and achievable ! (I’m an elementary school teacher and am aware of how challenging it can be to effectively teach concepts.) Keep up the FANTASTIC WORK! You know how to reach your learners!
Best regards,
Your new loyal subscriber!
Useful advice. I struggle with irregular verbs in the subjunctive. With Quiero que, think of you doing the wanting to someone else, or someone else doing it for you, or someone else with the correct form of Querer. The Subjunctive and Preterite are the hardest to conjugate, excluding rare tenses.
Wow, this is an excellent, efficient and concise explanation of the subjunctive. Thank you!
thanks!
The idea of “opposite tense” was a good one, ty
Thinking of it as Opposite is super helpful
That tip about “opposite tense” is great. I’ll remember that!
Muchas gracias por tu trabajo en este video, me ayudo mucho.
There is always so much helpful info in your short videos. Muy útil. Gracias por todo Connor x
Thanks Carol!
I guess for me the hardest part was I originally started looking at subjunctive as a tense and not what it really is...a "mood"
Very helpful thank you!
thank you so much connor!!!
Great video! Super helpful! Thank you!
Muchas gracias. Genial!
Espero que hagas mucho más videos.
Me ayudo mucho!
I’m just learning this mood, but I had noticed the “oppositeness” of the endings mentioned. Nice to hear it’s a general rule. Makes it much easier to grok. 😊
Quiero que sepas que me gusta el video. 😉
Perfectamente explicado!!
Muchas gracias a Connor por otra excelente lección.
tio miguel
Thank you! This is a very clear explanation :)
Thanks
Pls explain when to use subjunctive future which l come across when reading the Bible.gracias.
Not needed in Spanish anymore it is just used in legal documents
este video vale oro :p mil gracias
THANK YOU THIS IS REALY HELP
Muchas gracias
De nada!
Do you have imperfect subjunctive that is painless or in general overview?
Not yet but coming soon 👍👍
Excellent!
perfecto .. gracias ....
Gracias por otro video excelente🎉🎉🎉
Eres genial!!
gracias!
¡Este video me ayuda mucho!
Super easy ❤
Great video
Que tu video me enseñe el uso de subjuntivo
Why can’t my teacher just explain it like this
espero que tengas un buen dia
thank you !
Yo creo que sea una buena.
Does that make sense?
No creo que sea una buena idea pero Creo que es una buena idea.
Dudo que pueda venir a clase mañana
Very nice lesson. Here in Spain there are still 'groups of people' with less studies and not a big interest in language who don't use this correct mode of the verb (they tend to use conditionals when subjuntive is needed). Not going to put examples as it is a very bad use of verb modes. xD Just to note that some, small amount, spanish speakers can make bad use, take care! Xd
Thanks! Good point. It’s good for Spanish learners to remember that native speakers (of any language) also make mistakes, and that making mistakes (especially in complicated things like this) is totally normal and just part of learning
Test Seven,
TS, estoy celoso de que estés en España. No conozco a nadie allí.
Muchas gracias a Connor por otra excelente lección.
tio miguel
Este estuvo un buen video😊
Does the first part of the formula (before que) have to be in the first person? Quiero que
no, you can have quiere, queremos, etc. ("queremos que haya..."; "él quiere que hagamos...")
Hey what was the name of the video you made with the most common words used in spanish? I haven't been able to find it by scrolling through the content. Gracias
Here's what I think you might be referring to - it's about the most common verbs:
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Al menos entendí casi todas las oraciones de ejemplo que usaste 😅
y aquí ya tengo dos otros problemas más 🥲 no sé cuando usar "comprender" o "entender" y no sé cuando usar el pasado con "haber" (he usado) o la otra forma del pasado (usaste)
Ahh.....aprender español es muy divertido...😄
Comprender y entender.
Es lo mismo.
Puedes usar ambas.
Pero la mayoria de las personas usan la palabra entender.
@@shamantiger8977 Creo que uso sobre todo "comprender" para idiomas y "entender" para p.ej. música o conferencias. Entonces para mi "comprender" tiene más el sentido de poder entender algo lingüísticamente y "entender" que ser capaz de entender algo en términos de contenido o acústica. Pero bueno....si son básicamente sinónimos, obviamente me simplifica enormemente la cosa. Gracias
@@nickyg7557 sinónimos.
Tambien puedo decir ,no comprendo la música de led zeppelin o tambien puedo decir ,no entiendo la música de led zeppelin.
Es lo mismo.
Aunque cuidado.
Que la palabra comprender tambien tiene otros significados según el contexto de la frase.
thanks😊
Gracias por esta lección. Y también, después de “cuando” en algunas situaciones, verdad? “Te veré cuando llegues.” “Lo creeré cuando lo vea.” Son correctos?
Sí! En ciertos casos se usa así, sobre todo cuando se trata de algo que va a pasar pero uno no sabe cuando. Las frases que escribiste son correctas.
@@BreakthroughSpanish Gracias!
Espero que tenges un vacacion bien
From what I can gather after studying Spanish for about 14 months and realizing that no one really knows what it is or how to use it (including native speakers) is that the subjunctive can't be learned per se but has to be absorbed through immersion in the language and trial and error.
rly good
cheers
Quiero que te mas video hagas
To other native English speakers, the advice I give to be able to "SEE" the subjunctive in English, is practice first (in English) with _ANY_ verb in the 3rd person singular _OR_ our verb "to be" itself. You need to get the keyword "THAT" into what you want to say too. The reason for me saying _the 3rd person singular_ is it's the only form in English which differs from the indicative.
Examples: _I want Sharron to pay the (restaurant) bill_ rewritten with the word THAT in the sentence in English would be _I want that Sharron _*_PAY_*_ the bill_ {Can you see the S is missing from the verb pay? it's not Sharron payS but 'that Sharron pay'}. I hope that you *be* on time. {not _are_ but correctly, _be._ And co-incidentally this aligns with Spanish using the subjunctive in negative commands too}
thanks Paul! It is helpful to find comparisons to English for sure.
@@BreakthroughSpanish FWIW I now understand that modally _WERE TO_ aligns as our modal way of matching the past subjunctive: _If I _*_were to_*_ win the lottery, I'd go to South America for a 6 month holiday._
Some will question this and say it's using the infinitive but consider _I _*_used TO_*_ live in London_ alongside _I _*_ought TO_*_ study harder_ and _I _*_dared TO_*_ highlight my observations_ - these are all modal verb constructions (not pure infinitives).
As a native speaker, English sometimes hides away from us the ways we really do have of actually matching the tenses and moods in the Romance languages. While it's in my mind, further consider that "If I were to...." isn't the past of 'be' in the indicative (which is *I was* ). *... that + **_doer_** + were to....* = past subjunctive in English.
Oh wow, I've never heard of this comparison before, thanks! This helps so much because I know that "que/that" is the trigger for subjunctive, but am never sure when it gets added in when it's not always necessary to have it in the English version.
@@pauleff3312 Great points, subjunctive does exist in English in a limited way (compared to romance languages), and "If I were to..." is a good example
@@BreakthroughSpanish Ironically only today a Hispanohablante friend from Perú sent me a (Marvel type) comic to ask me for help with translating this sentence in the story: _I'm still not sure about this caper. If _*_I told_*_ it the way I think it happened nobody would believe it so I'll just give you the facts if that's what they are and let you make up your own mind!_
"If I told it" in the paragraph above completely threw my friend as it will you if you try to translate this word for word as it is written. "If I told it" in this comic is grammatically incorrect in English - but I accept that it's constructed and written down in a way we native English speakers generally say almost all the time.
Change the sentence to "If I *WERE TO* tell it" then read the whole thing again - there is our modal verb required English subjunctive correctly revealed and translating into Spansh is easy: Si lo dijera exactemente el camino que pienso lo pasó, ninguna lo creería, entoces voy a darte los hechos .....
¡Exito!
Cada vez es más común que en español "copiemos" algunas estructuras del inglés, aunque esto no sea adecuado. Por ejemplo, "to make a mistake". Decir "hacer un error" es un calco del inglés. La forma correcta es "cometer un error".
Pasa lo mismo con "to make sense". Cada vez es más común escuchar en español "hacer sentido", pese a que la forma correcta es "tener sentido". "Eso me hace sentido" suena bien, pero es un calco del inglés; deberíamos decir "eso tiene sentido para mí".
Saludos y gracias por tu canal.
Parece que eso pasa en muchos idiomas por la influencia del inglés hoy en día. Pero también pasa al revés - recién leí un articulo sobre "Miami English" que decía que allí se puede escuchar "get down from the car" (o sea, una transferencia de "bájate del auto" en vez de get out of the car). Es natural que los idiomas cambien y se adapten a lo que pasa en el entorno de los hablantes, y muchos hablantes, sobre todo jóvenes, están cada vez más en contacto con el inglés en su día a día. Pero igual no deja de sonar extraño (y tal vez malo, dependiendo de la persona) escuchar ciertas frases que son obvios calcos del inglés, como "hacer sentido". Saludos, gracias por tu comentario.
Yo evito cuanto puedo usar esa clase de lenguaje. Los que hablan así son los nacidos en Estados Unidos de padres hispanos, y lamentablemente muchos que de por sí ya hablaban mal el español adoptan las formas incorrectas de expresarse y pues se va propagando por todas partes.
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Subjunctive is not a tense, it is a mood. You can have subjunctive in the present tense, the preterite tense, and even the future tense (even if no one uses it anymore). And let's not forget that there are perfect tenses in the subjunctive as well. The subjunctive mood is the opposite to the indicative mood.
That's right, thanks for clarifying. I misspoke in the video and unfortunately can't correct it once it's been published.
Ojalá que yo saqué buenas notas para me examen.
The 'X que + you/him/they/etc' formula will always trigger the subjunctive:
Espero que + any other people but yourself
Deseo que....
Es importante que...
Es possible que...
Etc.
Cuando + you/he/they/etc is also another trigger
Cuando puedas.... Etc.
The 'it's a desire or a wish' explanation we always hear from non-native speakers is not the best way to look at it.
Awesome Vid… excellent time… all I would add for others… “… don’t forget it’s the “Yo” form we’re using!”…. Much thanks Connor!
Espero que esta oración sea correcta
Bien hecho 😎
I can understand rapid español on most podcasts etc now but STILL find it almost impossible to understand that spoken on television ! 😟
TV is hard! Lots of background noise, slang/very specific vocabulary, wide variety of speaking styles, etc. Even in English I use subtitles for some shows.
@@BreakthroughSpanish thank you 🤝
Haven’t wrapped my head around much in a long time
Where was this from 2000-2004?!
Los verbos que indican una necesidad o una obligación de hacer algo se llaman "verbos modales". Estos verbos modifican el significado del verbo principal en la oración para expresar la obligación, la posibilidad, la capacidad, la permisividad, etc.
Algunos ejemplos comunes de verbos modales son: "deber", "tener que", "poder", "querer", "necesitar", "soler", entre otros. Estos verbos a menudo se utilizan con un infinitivo para expresar la acción específica que se debe realizar.
Por ejemplo:
Debes estudiar para el examen.
Tienes que terminar tu tarea.
Puedes venir a mi casa después del trabajo.
Quiero ir al cine esta noche.
Necesitas comprar leche en el supermercado.
Solía practicar yoga todos los días.
Espero que tenges buena suerte
Espero que tengas buena suerte. It’s tengas, because it is and an irregular verb has an influence on it, -ar verbs change with an e with yo form and -er and -ir verbs change to a in yo form. It’s explained near the end of the video.
Trata de salir temprano sin que tu jefe te vea? Vaya ejemplo.
Great video! You are also very handsome.
You look like Alain Delon
bro my teacher makes us write the conjucations then study them that literally it. I wanna kms. Like how am I supposed to learn???!!
Hmmm, shouldn’t it be-no “cometas” los mismos errores…?😊
Oops! Yep. Thanks for pointing that out. Todos cometemos errores 🙂
The same mistakes as me or the same mistakes as I do?
haha, good thing it's not an English lesson. But yes it should have been the same mistakes as I do.
You're Sooo handsome ❤❤😮
Durante mi ninez yo jugaba futbol
this guys pretty
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😂 ❤
Just like the text books you also fail to mention the first person SINGULAR exception when talking about the direct reversal of endings between presente indicativo and presente subjuntivo. The first person singular DOES NOT follow the reversal pattern and why both YOU and ALL TEXT BOOKS fail to note that exception baffles me beyond belief. When you are learning Spanish, as I am, we hang on every single word because we are not yet able to determine its overall importance. When you teach, you have to cover ALL bases and leave nothing to ambiguity.
In presente indicativo, the first person singular uses an "o" ending for ALL THREE verbs (-ar, -er, -ir). In presente subjuntivo, the first person singular uses "e" for the -ar verbs and uses "a" for both the -er and -ir verbs. Thus, there is NO DIRECT REVERSAL for first person singular. Why you fail to note that is not understood by me (and others). You simply, and blithely, state that there is a direct reversal. There is NOT.
Things like this, whereby I am forced to disagree with the "master linguist", drive me nuts because I KNOW that you must be wrong but HOW can I say that you are wrong, because you are the teacher!!!! It is not only you, but ALL TEXT BOOKS also. THAT drives me nuts. - David Lyga
quiero que tu vengas a mi partido.
Why not in 5 seconds? No pain no gain, amigo. It takes a fair while to learn and practice this tricky mode properly. but well, it's worth the SUSTAINED effort.