Spanish: An Essential Grammar

Other typical patterns so produced are: leyera/leyese, construyera/

construyese, dijera/dijese, trajera/trajese, gruñera/gruñese and bullera/

bullese.

Future and conditional tenses

In both of these tenses the stem is supplied by the infinitive.

The endings for the future are identical to the present indicative endings of

the auxiliary verb haber(see Table 10.16), except that written accents are

required on the final syllable in all persons other than 1st person plural.

The endings for the conditional are identical to the endings of -er/-irverbs

in the imperfect tense.

The forms for the two tenses are illustrated in Tables 10.27 and 10.28.

The following verbs have irregular stems in the future and conditional,

although the endings are the same as those shown in Tables 10.27 and 10.28:

caber cabr- fit

decir dir- say

haber habr- (auxiliary/impersonal)

hacer har- do

poner pondr- put

querer querr- want

saber sabr- know

salir saldr- go out

tener tendr- have

valer valdr- be worth

venir vendr- come

Future subjunctive

For (very rare) uses, see 12.6.

The forms are identical to the -raforms of the imperfect subjunctive except

that final ais replaced by e: hablare, bebiere, subiere etc.

10.7

10.6

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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1011

1

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9

20111

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

30111

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Future

subjunctive

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