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Another incredible Spanish project featuring Deanna, Stephanie, and Leora. So learn the subjunctive commands the fun way!
Duration : 0:3:46
Written by rob on February 3rd, 2010 with 10 comments.
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In Argentina, It is important that you eat the beef.
In Cuba, I recommend that you interrupt a friend.
In Dominican Republic, It is important that you play Dominoes.
In El Salvador, I recommend that you don’t point with your index finger.
In Mexico, It is important to have two last names.
In Argentina, It is important that you eat the beef.
En Argentina es importante que comas carne vacuna.
In Cuba, I recommend that you interrupt a friend.
En Cuba te recomiendo que interrumpas a un amigo.
In Dominican Republic, It is important that you play Dominoes.
En la República Dominicana es importante que juegues al dominó.
In El Salvador, I recommend that you don’t point with your index finger.
En El Salvador te recomiento que no señales con el dedo índice.
In Mexico, It is important to have two last names.
En México es importante que tengas dos apellidos.
Written by rob on January 31st, 2010 with 2 comments.
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Gramática 40 – Use of the Subjunctive (Part 4): Doubt and Denial
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Written by rob on January 30th, 2010 with no comments.
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I’m a little confused about when it is used and when it is not, what are the rules surrounding its use?
Lots of rules, even I don’t have the patience to type them up. You should ask your teacher because I don’t think it’s possible you could ‘get’ it just from reading online explanations.
The generally use is to express uncertainty, doubt, regret or wish.
IE "J’aimerais que tu sois plus dicipliné." I wish you were more disciplined or I would like it if you were more disciplined.
The imparfait, passé, and plus-que-parfait are almost never used except in extremely complicated literary texts. They are for: replaces the subjontif present for a text in the past, expresses an action that has already happened before another action mentioned in the same sentence, replaces the subjontif passé in the part of a sentence’s statement that happened before the other part of the sentence, respectively.
Most people just "get it" naturally from reading books and assuming what it means, without using the dictionary definitions.
Written by rob on January 27th, 2010 with 4 comments.
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For example, por lo general is a trigger for the imperfect. What are trigger words for the subjunctive? Does the sentence also have to begin with a verb + que, or are they other ways of structuring the sentence?
You must use the subjunctive after :
- ojalá
ojalá lo traiga!
- para que
lo digo para que lo sepa
- siempre que
lo compraré siempre que tenga dinero
- como si
lo exige como si fuera suyo
But most of the time it’s the verb that implies a subjunctive.
queremos que te portes un poco mejor
(querer = will)
siento que no venga
(sentir = regret)
Written by rob on January 25th, 2010 with 1 comment.
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Buhler High School students in Kansas present the present subjunctive tense in entertaining ways.
Duration : 0:5:18
Written by rob on January 23rd, 2010 with 1 comment.
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[Visual French] To go – Subjunctive Present
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Written by rob on January 20th, 2010 with no comments.
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Does the subjunctive mood have to be expressed in the form of a wish ("I wish I were president"), or a conditional statement that includes a premise and a conclusion ("If I were president, the White House would be pink.")?
I meant, is there any OTHER way of expressing the subjunctive mood, besides a conditional and a wish statement?
Either one is subjunctive mood.
Written by rob on January 17th, 2010 with 1 comment.
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Gramática 38 – Use of the Subjunctive (Part 2): Influence
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Written by rob on January 17th, 2010 with 4 comments.
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In this video I explain how to conjugate verbs in the imperfect or past subjunctive and review uses for the present and past subjunctive moods.
Duration : 0:21:56
Written by rob on January 17th, 2010 with 8 comments.
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