Does 'teneré muchas ganas de'...make sense?

Question

I want to say that i will really want to... but i don't know if the phrase 'tengo muchas ganas de' can be changed into different tenses.

Answer 1

farallon7

Oye guapo, en España esto sería raro, solemos usar tener ganas de solo en presente y pasado, mayormente, no es imposible verlo, pero raro.

¿De dónde eres tú?

Answer 2

Olivia, this verb construction is mainly/ only used in the present indicative and in the past in Spanish I checked this out with a native speaker Cogumela tonight in Skype .

You can say, for example: Tengo ganas de viajar en todo el mundo (presente indicativo)

= I really want to travel the world (present indicative)

or using the imperfect (past);

Él tenía mucho ganas de ir a la fiesta pero desafortunadamente estaba muy enferma

= He really wanted to go to the party but unfortunately he was very ill.

The use of the present can have future implications, too as you see in my example above.There is therefore no need to conjugate it to the future. If you were trying to conjugate it to a different tense that does not support this construction then it is likely that you should be expressing your sentence/phrasing it in a different way.

I hope this helps

Answer 3

Yes, tendré muchas ganas de, tener muchas ganas de, tendría muchas ganas de, tuviera muchas ganas de, tuviese muchas ganas de, tenía muchas ganas de, tuve muchas ganas de, etc.

• BTW, "teneré" is incorrect.

Answer 4

Ahhhh thank you so much!

My pleasure! - farallon7, Feb 7, 2012