Transcript Grammar Rules: Imperfect Subjunctive

Grammar Rules:
Imperfect Subjunctive
Jessica Satinoff
Sean Nevins
Catalina Zapata
What is the Imperfect
Subjunctive?
• The Imperfect
Subjunctive
refers to events
or ideas that did
not, cannot and
will not happen.
Imperfect Subjunctive
• There is only one past tense in the
subjunctive, the imperfect
subjunctive.
• Form the root by removing the ‘-ron’
from the third-person plural of the
preterit, then add endings.
Verb endings:
•There is only one set of endings in the
imperfect subjunctive regardless of
whether the ending is –AR, -ER or -IR.
• The nosotros form has an accent on the
vowel right before the "r" in "-ramos."
ra
‘ramos
ras
rais
ra
ron
Enseñar
(to teach)
Aprender
(to learn)
Escribir
(to write)
(enseñaron)
(aprendieron)
(escribieron)
enseñara
aprendiera
escribiera
enseñaras
aprendieras
escribieras
enseñara
aprendiera
escribiera
enseñáramos
aprendiéramos
ecribiéramos
enseñarais
aprendierais
escribierais
enseñaran
aprendieran
escribieran
Irregular verbs
• Any irregular verbs that applied to the
preterit form will also apply to the
imperfect form:
• ir/ser: (fueron) fuera, fueras, fuera,
fuéramos, fuerais, fueran
• dormir: (durmieron) durmiera, durmieras,
durmiera, durmiéramos, durmierais,
durmieran
Examples:
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Ellos (decir)- dijeran
Tú (seguir)- siguieras
Julio (volver)- volviera
Nosotros (ir)- fuéramos
Ella (entender)- entendiera
El Fin