Purpose

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to use common present-subjunctive triggers for wishes, doubt, and necessity.

Lesson Explanation

Use the subjunctive after desire, necessity, and uncertainty: Quero que você venha, É importante que ele estude, Talvez chova. The point is not “future time”; it is the speaker’s attitude toward the action.

Practice Questions

1. Write “I want you to come.”

View Answer Quero que você venha.

2. Write “It is important that he study.”

View Answer É importante que ele estude.

3. Write “Maybe it will rain.”

View Answer Talvez chova.

4. What triggers the subjunctive here?

View Answer

Wish, necessity, or uncertainty.

5. What does talvez mean?

View Answer

Maybe.

6. What does venha mean?

View Answer

That you/he/she come.

7. Write “I hope you understand.”

View Answer Espero que você entenda.

8. Write “It is necessary that we leave.”

View Answer É necessário que nós saiamos.

9. Does the subjunctive simply mean future time?

View Answer

No.

10. What does it express?

View Answer

The speaker’s attitude toward the action.

11. Write “I doubt that he knows.”

View Answer Duvido que ele saiba.

12. Which word means “important”?

View Answer importante.
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