Cuando + El Presente de Subjuntivo vs Cuando + El Presente de Indicativo

sorry, there are more examples. But an imperativ as a future intention remains strange for me.

Hola Hans,

What we use after cuando to express a future intention is the Present Subjunctive. All the examples in the lesson that want to express a future intention have the present subjunctive. It may sound strange because it doesn't happen in English. In English in both cases, facts and future intentions with cuando, are expressed in the same way:

"When I go to Italy I will visit Rome."(future intention)

"When I go to Italy I visit Rome."(fact, everytime you go to Italy. It does happen)

We would use "Cuando vaya..." in the first example, but would use "Cuando voy..." in the second.

I hope it helps.

Thanks for your question.

Inma

I just have trouble with the imperativ:

When you go to Italy, visit Rome! (future intention)

I didnt understand from the text that this is a future intention, as it is not a future time.

Hi Meghan, we sometimes use the present tense to express "future" like in this case, especially with "querer+infinitive". This lesson is about using either the subjunctive or the indicative after "cuando", that's why it needs the subjunctive. You could easily say this as well without changing the meaning: "¿Dónde querrás comer cuando salgamos esta noche?" but both options are expressing a future idea in the first part of the sentence. It sounds more natural to say in Spanish "¿Dónde quieres comer...?, that's why we chose that one.

I hope it helped.

Inma

Hi Dawn - this is explained in the lesson. The subjunctive follows cuando when expressing an intention. The indicative follows when expressing a fact (the parasol blowing away is fact).

Hope that helps.

Dear William, thank you for your question. This lesson talks about using "cuando" with Presente de Subjuntivo to express future intentions. However, you can also use Presente de Indicativo to talk about facts. In your example, the fact of opening presents doesn't refer to the future but as a general event instead. It means "everytime that she opens her presents in Christmas she usually gets a perfum." Therefore we can't use Presente de Subjuntivo here, because it doesn't refer to the future. I hope it makes sense! Muchas gracias, Silvia.

Then surely either the lesson should mention this difference, or the question shouldn't link to this lesson?

Hola Nev! This difference between the indicative and the subjunctive is already mentioned in the lesson. Thanks for your contribution! Silvia

Hola Gail, thanks for contacting us and sorry about our delay. The form "poneos" comes from the reflexive verb "ponerse" in the 2nd person plural ("vosotros"). The original form should be "ponedos" but we need to remove the -d due to phonetical reasons when using the 2nd person plural and pronouns starting by a vowel. I hope that this is clearer now. Gracias! Silvia.