Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3413 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 1 of 7 06 August 2015 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
Hi,
Today as I was studying Spanish I came across two Spanish words that were in Subjunctive form. My
question is that I have never come across subjunctive before so how do I study them or use them I guess is a
better word. I was studying my Berlitz Basic Spanish book Unit 1. I was very surprised to come across two
subjunctive this early in the book.
Any advice?
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ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5229 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French
| Message 2 of 7 06 August 2015 at 8:12pm | IP Logged |
I'm sure it's covered later in the series. Don't worry much about it until you get to that section.
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Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3413 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 3 of 7 07 August 2015 at 1:09am | IP Logged |
Thank you
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James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5376 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 4 of 7 07 August 2015 at 2:27am | IP Logged |
Often times it is just because it is difficult to give a lot of different examples or write a text without the subjunctive. Both the Assimil course and the FSI course use the subjunctive in some of the very early lessons. I still remember thinking Assimil had a lot of spelling mistakes when I started using it (later realizing it was the subjunctive). Just go with it and be happy you realize they are using the subjunctive and not just making spelling mistakes :)
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Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3413 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 5 of 7 07 August 2015 at 3:56am | IP Logged |
Thanks 😀
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 6 of 7 07 August 2015 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
I recommend getting as well other sources. Grammar books like Gramatica de Uso dedicate several pages to subjunctivo, to various uses and formation.
And a lot will get clear once you progress enough to start using some authentic input, subjunctivo is everywhere, you will get used to it fast :-)
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Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3413 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 7 of 7 07 August 2015 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
Thanks very much
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