are there any spanish majors in the house?

[sash1]

I have a spanish final tomorrow. Anyway, my friend and I are studying and we are not understanding something involving the subjunctive.

If anyone is a spanish master or major or whatever and can help me, then please PM me or IM me (sn = tehfez) and I'll ask you that way

Thank you anyone who can help me!

~sash1

 

[Turkish]

no entiendo

 

[BoomerD]

Sorry amigo...me no sabe mucho...

 

[sash1]

lol, so even the kid from Peru who lives on my hall doesn't know! spanish grammar = soo confusing

 

[sash1]

nm I solved it! I stared at it for so long I had an epiphany and somehow understood it...

or maybe it's just the lack of sleep I've been getting this week hate finals!!

sasha

 

[rhino56]

take this stuff back across the border

 

[dugweb]

I'm curious, what was the question?

 

[sash1]

Originally posted by: dugweb
I'm curious, what was the question?

I didn't understand why in conditional clauses with the subjunctive, you used the past subjunctive in some cases but the pluperfect subjunctive in other sentences. At first it looked like the same format and I didn't understand:

if (pluperfect subjunctive) > conditional statement
if (past subjunctive) > conditional statement

I just stared at it long enough until I realized the answer, which I can't really explain well, but I know if I see it on the final tomorrow I'll understand it.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: sash1

Originally posted by: dugweb
I'm curious, what was the question?

I didn't understand why in conditional clauses with the subjunctive, you used the past subjunctive in some cases but the pluperfect subjunctive in other sentences. At first it looked like the same format and I didn't understand:

if (pluperfect subjunctive) > conditional statement
if (past subjunctive) > conditional statement

I just stared at it long enough until I realized the answer, which I can't really explain well, but I know if I see it on the final tomorrow I'll understand it.

I'm going through the exact same thing... I really struggled through our last chapter about future conditional. In fact I missed most of those questions on the test (had the concept backwards in my mind for some reason).

btw, when you say pluperfect, is that short for pluscuamperfecto? and isn't that past perfect (or present perfect, I can't remember)

which is when you use "habria -verbo-" (If I had done this, I would do that)... I have yet to study for my final in spanish so I'm real fuzzy on a lot of the tenses

 

[Goosemaster]

<---glad he learned it aas a kid and just "gets it"

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: rhino56
take this stuff back across the border

:roll:

 

[Eltano1]

Me hubiera gustado ver la pregunta en el idioma original (español). Quizas los que somos biligual podemos ayudarte.

Eltano

 

[homestarmy]

Why would anyone major in spanish? And people say my degree is useless...