SPANISH SUBJUNCTIVE

Learning when to use the subjunctive mood can be particularly challenging for English-speakers or Chinese-speakers learning Spanish partly because the subjunctive mood is nearly absent in English or Chinese. With numerous examples presented in all sub-sections in “SUBJUNCTIVE”, readers would definitely be benefited to get used to the spelling of verbs (verb conjugation) for subjunctive mood. Then to learn under what condition subjunctive mood should be used will become much easier later on.


Working backward from the present subjunctive to obtain the infinitive, and working backward from the imperfect subjunctive to obtain the past or imperfect tense and then the infinitive, this kind of practice is an efficient way to learn verb conjugation.


After que or ojalá, and when the wish is a possible possibility, present subjunctive should be used; following ojalá and the wish is contrary to facts, imperfect subjunctive should be used.