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subjunctive in the PONS Dictionary

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subjuntivo
subjunctive
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The subjunctive mood also expresses warnings, suggestions and potential situations in some subordinate clause types.
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Subjunctive statements often occur in dependent clauses, such as the subjunctive example in the preceding sentence.
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The present subjunctive differs from the indicative only in that the vowel in the endings changes from "a" to "o".
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These verbs derive from the subjunctive or optative use of preterite forms to refer to present or future time.
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Primary subjunctives are changed to the corresponding secondary ones; secondary ones never change.
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However, even when the subjunctive and indicative forms are identical, their time references are usually different.
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The present subjunctive is marked with a suffix following the person marking.
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Because of these differences, epistemic possibility bears on the actual world in ways that subjunctive possibility does not.
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The indicative forms take the subjunctive forms, changing the inflectional vowel to "u" in the plural.
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However, the synthetic future subjunctive is still in common use.
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