Spanish indicative
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How do you tell if a verb is present, past, future, or conditional in the indicative tense when you are doing the indicative vs. the subjunctive?
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updated Mar 23, 2012
posted by JRD802
Welcome to the forum. =) - NikkiLR, Mar 22, 2012
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I was thinking of the infinitive not the indicative. So my answer was way wrong. Sorry.
updated Mar 23, 2012
edited by gringojrf
posted by gringojrf
You're thinking of the infinitive, gringojrf. The infinitive is the base (unconjugated) form of a verb. Indicative and subjunctive are moods, not tenses. - babs_irish, Mar 22, 2012
You are absolutely correct. How stupid of me. - gringojrf, Mar 22, 2012
Nooooo, grigojrf. A simple mistake. :-) - babs_irish, Mar 23, 2012
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JRD802, You can only tell if a verb is present, past, or future tense by knowing the context of the sentence. If you're looking at a sentence that's written in Spanish and you're not familiar with the conjugated verb, use the conjugator here on this site and type in the infinitive. That will show you what the verb tense is of the particular sentence you're reading.
updated Mar 22, 2012
posted by babs_irish
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I think the following link has a very good explanation of verbs conjugation in Spanish. Check it out! Spanish Conjugation
updated Mar 22, 2012
posted by farallon7
