¿Aunque muero por volver?

Question

Esto fue en una canción del grupo Camila y .... Pues ¿qué significa exactamente?

Ya sé que "aunque" se usa con el subj. .... ¿Por qué no es:

"Aunque me muera de volver"?

No entiendo por qué no se usa el subj. ni "de" en vez de "por" y ni "me" con "muero" jaja ..... ¿Alguien puede ayudarme? Gracias

Answer 1

There are really two factors with aunque:

The speaker isn't sure about the truth-value in the subordinate clause (see agmckenz' example), in which case you'll use the subjunctive,

-or-

The speaker knows that his listener already knows about the fact he's about to present, and doesn't want to underline it - in this case you'll also use the subjunctive.

So in this example, the singer presents "aunque me muero por volver" as new information, using the indictative. Which, of course, makes a lot of sense.

As for the rest of your question, the singer is using the verb "morir" instead of "morirse" - that's the reason for the lack of the personal pronoun "me".

And he uses "por" instead of "de" because returning isn't a cause he's dying from; he's dying TO return - it's a strong wish on his part.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

you do not always use the subjunctive with aunque

here is a previous post

Here's another example:

Indicative: Llegaré aunque mi carro no funciona. (I will arrive even though my car isn't running.)

Subjunctive: Llegaré aunque mi carro no funcione. (I will arrive even if my car isn't running.)

Explanation: The indicative is used in the first sentence because the speaker knows his car isn't working. In the second sentence, the speaker doesn't know whether it is running, so the subjunctive is used.

Answer 3

Explanation: The indicative is used in the first sentence because the speaker knows his car isn't working. In the second sentence, the speaker doesn't know whether it is running, so the subjunctive is used.

A little improvement: in the first one, in indicative is used because the speaker wants to indicate (or declare) that; in the second one, subjunctive is used because the speaker doesn't want to. You can perfectly use subjunctive even though you know 100% that it is true, so you can't explain the choice of mood as being a matter of knowledge.

Regarding "me", I would say that in spoken Spanish you will rarely (or maybe never) hear "muero por + infinitive"; always "me muero por + infinitive". The absence of the pronoun sounds either weird, or very literary, since it seems to suggest almost a real death; it is too dramatic.

Answer 4

1. Aunque is not allways used with subjunctive. There is not such a rule. You can use either indicative or subjunctive after "aunque".

Aunque muero por volver.

Aunque muera por volver.

The indicative is used for something actually happening. I actually die for something.

The subjunctive is used for something that is posible, or desirable... I would die for something.

1. Morir can be either transitive: yo muero, tú mueres, él muere... Or pronominal: morirse: yo me muero, tú te mueres, él se muere.... So, you can say:

Muero por volver.

Or...

Me muero por volver.

The correct preposition in this case is "por"

Morir por volver, morirse por volver.

The preposition "de" would mean something different:

Me muero de vergüenza.

Me muero de pena.

Me muero de risa.

Etcétera.

I think you mean morir can be intransitive (although R A E lists 1 transitive use of morir synonimous to matar).) - Deanski, Apr 7, 2011