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In Spanish we have the Present Subjunctive Mood and the Imperfect Subjunctive Mood.
In this project we intend to cover the Present Subjunctive Mood. The Imperfect
Subjunctive Mood will be covered in The Learn Spanish Subjunctive Project II
The Subjunctive Mood in Spanish is not a verb tense. The term “mood” refers to the way
we feel. In the Spanish culture, we place great importance on expressing our emotions,
and it is here where the Subjunctive Mood comes into play. We use the Subjunctive Mood
to express how we feel, what we wish to accomplish, our concerns and doubts as well as
our beliefs regarding the way others should behave, conduct their business, react, feel...
This is an area of the Spanish Language I do not advice students to study on their own
due to the many questions that will arise in the process; however, you can learn all the
verbs, connectors and impersonal phrases that are followed by the Subjunctive Mood and
prepare yourself before you arrive to this area of the language.
These verbs infer that the object is subjected to the needs, emotions, doubts of the
subject who wishes, doubts, needs others to feel, act, think accordingly. Of course, the
object of the sentence (a person, animal, thing) does not have to react to the wishes and
desires of the subject), and this is the reason why the Subjunctive indicates the event
that is yet to be experienced.
2. Spanish Special Verbs like the verb Gustar are also followed by the
Subjunctive Mood.
Several of the above expressions and connectors are also used in the Indicative
Mood; the difference being, that in the Indicative Mood they express regular
activity. In the subjunctive mood they would be used to speak about an event
that is yet to be experienced
4.Impersonal Expressions (the subject expresses an idea he/she believes to be
common sense, or an idea shared by the mayority).