{"id":2086,"date":"2010-11-24T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2010-11-24T21:08:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T21:08:01","slug":"subjunctive-present-tense-with-indefinite-pronouns-and-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/subjunctive-present-tense-with-indefinite-pronouns-and-adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Lesson Intermediate 8 Spanish Subjunctive Present Tense with Indefinite Pronouns and Adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spanish Lesson Intermediate 8 Subjunctive present tense with indefinite pronouns and adjectives\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MmLyiSr9k7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Hola! \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I hope you are all very well and enjoying your Spanish studies. We are going to continue looking into the Spanish Subjunctive Present tense, today with sentences that include an indefinite pronoun or an indefinite adjective.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9 es un pronombre indefinido? Words like \u201calguien\u201d (someone), \u201calgo\u201d (something), nadie (nobody) and \u201cnada\u201d (nothing).<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9 es un adjetivo indefinido? Words like \u201calg\u00fan\/a\u201d (some\/any) and \u201cning\u00fan\/a\u201d (any in negative sentences).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u00b4s start by looking at some questions in which we use the subjunctive with indefinite pronouns or adjectives. For example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfHay alguien que hable espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed?: Is there anyone here who speaks Spanish? &#8211; We use the subjunctive as the person who speaks Spanish is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfHay algo para comer?: Is there anything to eat? &#8211; In this case, the food we have to eat is also uncertain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u00b4s see another example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfHay alguna tarta que no tenga nata?: Is there any cake which doesn\u00b4t have cream?<\/p>\n<p>We don\u00b4t only use the subjunctive with questions starting with \u201chay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can use the verb \u201cconocer\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfConoces a alguien que se llame Antonio?: Do you know anybody called Antonio?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfConoces una ciudad que tenga m\u00e1s restaurantes?: Do you know a city which has more restaurants?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSaber\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSabes si hay \u2026?: Do you know if there is \u2026?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSabes si hay alguna fruta que contenga mucho calcio?: Do you know if there is any fruit that contains a lot of calcium?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTener\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfTienes\u2026?: Have you got\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfTienes alg\u00fan amigo que hable espa\u00f1ol?: Have you got any friend who speaks Spanish<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u00b4s see now some subjunctive negative sentences with indefinite pronouns and adjectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No hay nadie que escuche a los dem\u00e1s: There is nobody who listens to the others<\/p>\n<p>No hay nada que me guste: There is nothing that I like<\/p>\n<p>No hay ning\u00fan hotel donde pueda dormir esta noche: There is no hotel where I can sleep tonight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We can also use the subjunctive with sentences that contain the words \u201cpoco\u201d, \u201cpoca\u201d, \u201cpocos\u201d or \u201cpocas\u201d and follow this structure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hay poco\/a\/os\/as \u2026: There are few\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hay poca gente que quiera fumar aqu\u00ed: There are few people who want to smoke here<\/p>\n<p>Hay pocos lugares donde podamos ir sin coche: There are few places we can go without a car<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is all for today about the use of the Spanish subjunctive with indefinite pronouns and adjectives.\u00a0 I hope you are clear on the different uses and recommend that you think of different situations where you could use these types of sentence and write down some practice examples. The more you repeat the structures, the quicker they will start to roll off your tongue naturally in conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Que pas\u00e9is una buena semana y hasta pronto,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Adi\u00f3s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Hola! \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal? I hope you are all very well and enjoying your Spanish studies. We are going to continue looking into the Spanish Subjunctive Present tense, today with sentences that include an indefinite pronoun or an indefinite adjective. \u00bfQu\u00e9 es un pronombre indefinido? Words like \u201calguien\u201d (someone), \u201calgo\u201d (something), nadie (nobody) and \u201cnada\u201d (nothing)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/subjunctive-present-tense-with-indefinite-pronouns-and-adjectives\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6,13,2617],"tags":[358365,148,358371],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","category-vocabulary","category-videos","tag-grammar","tag-subjunctive","tag-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}