How to conjugate verbs in spanish subjunctive
Conjugating the Present Subjunctive Mood in Spanish
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hey everybody keiru paul here welcome to
the channel in today's video i'm going
to be showing you how to conjugate uh
regular and irregular verbs into the
present subjunctive mood now you've
heard me talk about the present
subjunctive mood a lot so what i'm going
to do today is create a reference video
just showing the conjugations not when
to use them that way when you see other
videos about how and when to use the
subjunctive i can refer you back to this
video if you don't know how to do the
conjugations okay we're going to start
with
regular verbs and when i say regular
verbs that means these are verbs that
follow the pattern i'm going to be
showing you
and
you know there's always irregular verbs
that just want to follow their own
pattern but we're going to talk about
those second first regular verbs now it
is not that difficult to conjugate into
the present subjunctive mood if you know
the present indicative which chances are
if you've been studying spanish for any
length of time you do because it tends
to be the very first tense and mood
taught to students so let's take a look
at the verb poner in the present
indicative now in order to make this
verb
into the subjunctive we're going to look
at the first person what does it say
pongo
and then we're going to drop the last
letter off of it so what we've done here
is we've created our root for all of the
conjugations
so let's do that we're talking yo tu
third person singular nosotros third
person plural
all of them that's just going to be our
base now and then you're just going to
put on the appropriate endings now
here's how it works if there's an ar
verb which this one wasn't then your
endings are e
s
and if it's an er or ir verb meaning it
ends with those letters then your
endings are going to be ah
see it kind of looks opposite of the
present indicative
with the exception of the first person
there's no o there okay this is not
really difficult so let's plug in our
endings
that's it that is the present
subjunctive mood let's use another verb
you're probably going to use a lot tener
to have let's take a look at the first
person in the indicative right i have
tengo what are we going to do drop our o
from the end and this is going to be our
new base for all of our conjugations
and we're going to go ahead and plug in
those other endings
okay let's take a little short verb like
to see right
same thing what is it in the first
person indicative
bail we drop the o
that's going to be our base we're going
to add it all the way down
let's look at an ar verb
comprar to buy what is it in the first
person indicative i buy
yo compro right or compro so we know
what our base is going to be when we
drop the o and then we're going to go
ahead and fill in the letters now
remember for ar verbs it's a es
let's do one more ar verb hablar to
speak right i speak in the present
indicative is what yo hablo we drop our
o we know that's going to be our base
hable hables hable hablemos hablen
that's it that's regular verbs it's not
that difficult now let's move on to
irregular verbs now when i say irregular
you're going to have a few irregular
verbs that are going to be completely
different and you've seen these in other
forms one of them is going to be eid to
go again that one's always irregular you
got to expect it then there's going to
be a few that there's some spelling
changes just to maintain the sounds and
there's a few that the nosotros form is
going to be different first we're going
to touch on the big irregulars the ones
that are completely irregular and these
are verbs you're probably going to be
using all the time so these verbs are
dar to give estar
which means to have but not like tenet
it's a helping verb like i have had
something or have gone that kind of
thing and saber to know let's start with
dar to give
we're going to have day
so you have a little accent over the e
in the first and third person
um also i didn't mention this before but
you may have noticed that the first and
third person of the present subjunctive
mood are going to always be the same
that means that you may have to use some
pronouns that you wouldn't normally have
to stick in like yo to be understood who
you're talking about let's move on to
ser to be
um
and estar to be
este estes este estemos
so you still have those accents just
like you would in the present indicative
now aber which is a helping verb like i
said
like i have spoken eslado and it's also
used with my favorite spanish word i
which means there is or there are or is
there or are there so that's actually
when it's going to be most useful this
one conjugates
to
and last but not least of these truly
irregular verbs is it to go this one's
irregular a lot of the time so you
should be used to it this one is
the best way to learn those verbs is
just to go memorize them now we're going
to move on to another category that will
appear to conjugate um in a regular way
except in the nosotros form
and
when you know the present indicative
remember that's the present tense you've
been using all this time you just maybe
didn't realize there were some other
options
it's going to give you an indication how
to use this so one of the categories is
stem changing verbs that change from e
to ie now a big one is querer to want
this one changes
to want is the infinitive when we make
it in the present indicative it's quiero
quieres quiere
queremos si nosotros didn't change
well this pattern kind of transfers over
so we would do what we normally do we
take quiero we drop the o and we're
going to put our other endings right
but we're back to nosotros that stem is
not going to change
another category that does this are the
verbs that change from o to ue two of
the big ones are poder to be able to and
dormir to sleep now the present
indicative does the same thing so we're
just doing it in the subjunctive we're
not changing the stem in the nosotros
form so poder would be pueda
puedas pueda
podamos
pueden
these are some verbs that'll change
spelling a little bit but they do it in
order to maintain the intended sound
let's take a look at one word sakar
which means to
take out in the first person indicative
it would be sako
so if we were going to add all of our
endings right because it's an ar and i
put an e there what would it sound like
sase or something because a c before an
i or an e has an s sound so it wouldn't
sound anything like
sako so what they do is to maintain the
sound is spanish changes that to a
little q u right that always has a k
sound like quiero and that becomes our
new base we just add our endings sake
sake
verbs like yegar do the same thing
because it's an ar verb so if we had
yego and we drop the o and we put the e
a g before an e or an i sounds like an h
in english so to maintain the sound they
change it to g u to keep that hard g
and the rest is the same yeage
so you may actually have both of these
things kind of mixed the stem changing
from like e to ie so you're not going to
do it in the nosotros form and then you
may have a spelling change in the root
just to maintain the sound
a good verb for this is empezar to begin
right so when we change it out it's
going to be mpc
if you're learning how to conjugate in
the present subjunctive for the first
time don't get overwhelmed by it what i
suggest that you learn how to conjugate
regular verbs first then learn those
verbs that are very different like
they are power verbs you're going to be
using them all the time
next i would probably learn the ones
with a little bit of a spelling change
and a good way to think of that is it
just has to maintain that sound well
there you have it i hope you enjoyed the
video feel free to refer to it as many
times as you need to
and i look forward to showing you when
and how to use the subjunctive to boost
your spanish that'll be in other videos
so if that sounds like something that
might interest you you might want to
subscribe to the channel because i have
a lot planned for this in 2022.
until next time
hasta luego
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