If future subjunctive is rarely used then how does one say....?
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...."I don´t believe my grandparents will come". In Paralee's post on this subject, she translates this example with the future subjunctive but also notes this tense of subjunctive is rarely used in modern spanish. So what is the best way to say a phrase like this?
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updated Nov 18, 2011
posted by t8805jg
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Maybe:
No creo que mis abuelos vayan a venir.
updated Nov 18, 2011
posted by lorenzo9
Venir is better! - annierats, Nov 18, 2011
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I will will stick my neck out and put it the simplest posible way: Creo que mis abuelos no van a llegar./ no van a venir
Llegar rather implies the poor old things set off, perhaps on a train to nowhere.. I'm sure there will be trillions of better informed answers, I'm just geting the ball rolling for you, please understand that nothing I say must be taken too seriously.
updated Nov 18, 2011
edited by annierats
posted by annierats
I'm going to bed now, tomorrow I shall now what the answer is, I hope. - annierats, Nov 18, 2011
