Tenses of the Indicative and Subjunctive Moods in Spanish
INDICATIVE MOOD |
SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD |
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P |
Future | hablaré | (hablare)1 | I will speak |
| Future perfect | habré hablado | (hubiere hablado)1 | I will have spoken | |
| Present | hablo | hable | I speak / am speaking / do speak | |
| Present perfect | he hablado | haya hablado | I have spoken (or spoke in subj.) | |
P |
Imperfect | hablaba | hablara / hablase2 | I spoke / was speaking |
| Preterit | hablé | I spoke | ||
| Past perfect | había hablado | hubiera hablado | I had spoken | |
| *Conditional3 | hablaría | I would speak | ||
| *Conditional perfect3 | habría hablado | I would have spoken | ||
1 The future and future perfect subjunctive
tenses are very rarely used in modern Spanish, but may be found in literature.
Ordinarily they are replaced by the present subjunctive.
2 The alternate imperfect subjunctive, the
-se forms, are usually not taught at the first and second levels of
college Spanish, but they are still in use in parts of the Hispanic world.
3 Technically, the conditional and
conditional perfect are often considered tenses of a special mood, the
conditional, rather than part of the indicative mood.
| Contact: Fred F. Jehle | |
| Indiana University - Purdue University Ft. Wayne | |
| Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 USA | URL: http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/courses/subindtn.htm |