Spanish Subjunctive

Spanish Subjunctive

* The regular subjunctive forms are shown below:
ame corra viva
ames corras vivas
ame corra viva
amemos corramos vivamos
améis corráis viváis
amen corran vivan
* Subjunctive verbs may be used to talk about something that may or may not exist
o I'm looking for evidence that the government covered up the 1947 discovery of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in the case known as ROSWELL.
o Maybe no such evidence exists.
* Subjunctives might be used to build doubt into your sentence.
* You might use it for the expression "God willing that ..."
* The present subjunctive was used for formal commands
* It was used for negative tú and negative vosotros commands
* It was used for first person plural commands
* doubt, fear, hope, joy, sorrow

Dudo que I doubt that
No creo que I don't believe that
Temo que I fear that
Me alegro de que I am happy that
Espero que I hope that
* After the adverbs
o acaso
o quizá
o tal vez

IRREGULAR PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVES

dar estar haber ir saber ser
dé esté haya vaya sepa sea
des estés hayas vayas sepas seas
dé esté hayay vaya sepa sea
demos estemos hayamos vayamos sepamos seamos
deis estéis hayáis vayáis sep´is seáis
den estén hayan vayan sepan sean
Two different references list second person pluarl dar without an accent

EXPRESSIONS

a eso de las tres at about three o'clock
al fin y al cabo after all
a través de through
¿algo más? something else?
cada cual each one
de manera que so that
de modo que so that
de prisa quickly
de nada it's nothing, you're welcome
dentro de poco in a while
desde luego of course
en seguida right away
¡no puedo más! I can't take it anymore!
lo siento I'm sorry
poco a poco little by little
por lo tanto for that reason
sin falta without fail
sin embargo however, nevertheless
tener que to have to, must
todo el mundo everyone
por mi parte as far as I'm concerned

CONDITIONAL

* Conditional verbs may be used if some action occurs as a result of a condition.
* The conditionals for regular verbs
yo amaría correría vivería
tú amarías correrías viverías
ella, él, usted amaría correría vivería
nosotros amaríamos correríamos viveríamos
vosotros amaríais correríais viveríais
ellos amarían correrían viverían
o He sobrevivido, evidentemente. No estaría hablando con vosotros si no fuera así.
o I survived, obviously. I wouldn't be talking to you if I hadn't.
o (I am talking to you because I survived)
o ¿La sed de sangre? Creo que podría existir sin ella por completo.
o The blood thirst? I believe I could exist without it altogether.
o (I could live without the blood)