The Spanish "subjunctive" is used to express emotions and feelings as opposed to "indicative" which refers to actual (or likely) events.

Brief overview of uses:

Present - Emotions today and tomorrow about something being done today or tomorrow.

Imperfect - Emotions yesterday about something done before yesterday and conditional sentences referring to something unreal today or tomorrow.

Present Perefect - Emotions today and tomorrow about something done yesterday.

Pluperfect - Conditional sentences referring to something unreal yesterday.

Follow the links on the right for more information on each subjunctive mood.

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