Hay en futuro o condicional.

Question

OK, I can't quite figure this out myself. Not sure if it's my lack of conditional knowledge, or lack of future, or los dos. I´ll put my guesses down so as not to appear lazy, but I assume they´re wrong, or I wouldn´t be on here begging for help.

How would I say any of the below. (I'm listing four variations to hopefully help me get the distinctions a bit better and learn more, not to make more work for others, so even a single answer is appreciated)

Also, since those are slightly longer than my normal choppy primitive sentences, I'm not so sure about best word order.

1). Is there a meeting tomorrow? Hay una reunion mañana?

2). Is there going to be a meeting tomorrow? Va a haber una reunion mañana?

3). If there is a meeting tomorrow, please let me know. Si hay una reunion mañana, digamelo por favor.

4). If there is going to be a meeting tomorrow, please let me know. Si va haber una reunion mañana, digamelo por favor.

Thanks all.

Roger

Mi intento: 1. correcta ¿Hay una reunión mañana? - 2. ¿Habrá una reunión mañana? - 3. Si hay una reunión mañana, dígame. - ruiseñor, Jul 4, 2012

En caso de duda, es una buena idea buscar la palabra en www.linguee.com - ruiseñor, Jul 4, 2012

Just so you know, on this website there is a tab on top of the webpage "conjugate" so you can just type in the verb, in this case "haber" and within seconds you will have all of the conjugations.. I use it almost daily. Great quick resource! - mnjacobs1, Jul 4, 2012

Recomiendo que uses www.livemocha.com para practicar la escritura. Creéme, no te lo arrepentirás. - ruiseñor, Jul 4, 2012

Thanks for the translations. I'll look into live mocha. I'm familiar w/ he conjugator, as a guy with Zero experience or education in the future tense, I've not yet started blindly using it, as I have no idea what the constructions in future look like. - rogspax, Jul 4, 2012

Recomiendo que échele un vistazo a la página web www.studyspanish.com y completar todas las lecciones ahí. - ruiseñor, Jul 4, 2012

Voy a hacerlo. But it's a long journey to absorb all the lessons there, and here, and I sometimes have questions _now_ :) - rogspax, Jul 4, 2012

Thank you for the links ruiseñor. I just signed up for linguee. - 0095ca4c, Jul 5, 2012

Con mucho gusto, Margherite. - ruiseñor, Jul 5, 2012

Answer 1

There are three basic way of speaking about the future. You can use the present tense as in your first example, "¿Hay una reunión mañana?"

You can use the construction "ir a", commonly translated as "going to". This is generaly used for near-term events. Your second example covers this.

The third method is to use the future tense, which isn't represented in your examples. "Will we meet tomorrow" would be "¿Reuniremos mañana?" Or if you want to use a derivative of "haber", you could use "¿Habrá una reunión mañana?"

It is also possible to use the future perfect, such as "Habremos reunido", or "we will have met".

Answer 2

Allow me to chime in:

If I wanted to ask if there's a meeting going on tomorrow whilst thinking it is likely to happen, then I'd ask: ¿hay (una) reunión mañana?

If I thought it is not likely for a meeting to take place, then I'd ask: ¿habrá (una) reunión mañana? or ¿va a haber (una) reunión mañana?

Answer 3

¿ Hay una reunión mañana? I think this works fine.

¿ Tenemos una reunión mañana? is a simple way out that will be understood, although it doesn't answer your question. I know these are in the present, but the present, as in English, is often used for something in the near future and mañana specifies the time.

Answer 4

1). Is there a meeting tomorrow? Hay una reunion mañana?

This is fine.

2). Is there going to be a meeting tomorrow? Va a haber una reunion mañana?

Here I would say, ¿Va a ser una reunion mañana? Is there going to be a meeting tomorrow?

3). If there is a meeting tomorrow, please let me know. Si hay una reunion mañana, digamelo por favor.

Here I would say, Si hay una reunion mañana, avísame por favor.

4). If there is going to be a meeting tomorrow, please let me know. Si va haber una reunion mañana, digamelo por favor.

Here I would say, Si va a ser una reunion mañana, avísame por favor.

I would only use "hay" in your first example. I would not use haber at all.

By the way, I am not positive but I do not think hay has a future or conditional form. Haber does, for sure but those are helping verbs. Hay, hubo and hacia: meaning there is/are or there was/were is only in the the present and two past tenses. I could be wrong about this though.

Answer 5

¿Hay una reunión mañana? sounds most natural to me, keep it nice and simple and don't try to cram too many words into a sentence.

No hay nada innatural sobre "haber" en el tiempo futuro. Se tiene que aumentar su vocabulario para leer y entender mejor el idioma. - ruiseñor, Jul 4, 2012

Answer 6

My favorite Mexican singer, Lila Downs, has written a new song called "Fallaste Corizón". What would be the translation of this title. I want to use "You trumped your heart" because there are several references to betting and gambling in the song.

Me gusta mucho su canción "La Cucaracha" (su versión de la canción es fantástica) - ruiseñor, Jul 4, 2012

Well, I think you'll get more responses if you make your own question and don't accidentally put it in another thread :) - rogspax, Jul 4, 2012

Es cierto. - ruiseñor, Jul 4, 2012

But as a sidebar, she's one of my favs too, and I was lucky enough to see her a few month's ago at Austin's annual SXSW music festival. She put on an awesome show (not hyperbole) and has stage presence to spare. La puedo recomendar. - rogspax, Jul 4, 2012