Why is venir conjugated, querer already is.

Question

My diccionario gives the sentance, "Quiero que vengas.' It gives the meaning to be, I want you to come. Why is venir conjugated, when querer already is conjugated, and also why is te not used in place of que? I would think the sentance would be, Quiero te venir. What gives? Thanks, Mark.

Answer 1

I am horrible explaning things, but I will give it a shot.

Since you are stating that you "want" that person come, you use the Subjunctive.

Quiero que vengas

Whenever you use querer, desear, esperar, dudar ect. you will use the Subjunctive.

Espero que estes bien I hope that you are well. Ella espera que yo cierre la puerta She hopes that I close the door.

Also with indirect commands as well..

Que lo hagas tú (that you do it, you do it)

It's stating a wish or desire that you want that person to do something. So you use the Subjunctive tense.

Now if you were saying for instance "I want to come" or "I want to talk" You would say "Quiero venir", or "Quiero hablar".

or She wants to come, Ella quiere venir

When stating that you want to do something, or someone else wants to do something you use -

querer + infinitive of the verb

When stating that you want someone to do something, or that someone else wants/wishes another person to do something, use the subjunctive.

No! You're not horrible. Your explination is clear. Thanks. - CalvoViejo, Sep 20, 2009

Excellent explanation! Thank you so much! - Alicia-53, Sep 20, 2009

jaja... well I think I am bad at explaining because I do not give the correct grammatical terms as others do. - NikkiLR, Sep 20, 2009

Answer 2

Hi nikkis

The cases where the subject changes causes the use of the subjunctive.

I want to come, No change of subject so infinitive is used.

I want you to come. Change of subject so subjunctive is used.

Answer 3

I can see what you're thinking: I want you to come = Quiero te venir

because: I want = quiero, you = te, to come = venir

..but it's the wrong way of looking at the translation.

Quiero que vengas = I want that you come.

Both verbs need to be conjugated to show that they each have different subjects.

The person doing the 'wanting' (I), is not the same as the person doing the 'coming' (you).

Answer 4

Si Si, esto es el subjuntivo. Quiero que vengas ... I want you to come, se expresa en Espanol con el subjuntivo porque no se sabe si o no la otra persona va a venir. Solo estas diciendo que quieres que la otra persona venga.

Cuando no se sabe el resultado de la peticion, se usa el subjuntivo.

Espero que esto le haya ayudado (otro ejemplo del subjuntivo)

Answer 5

Check this out - on subjunctive