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choose the sentence that uses the subjunctive form.

Cuando vengas iremos a Managua. Me gusta caminar por Managua cuando estoy contigo.

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updated Jan 14, 2013
posted by CheekyNi
Welcome to the forum, please accept your first vote :) - Kiwi-Girl, Jan 14, 2013

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When cuando is followed by a future or anticipated action it is followed by the subjunctive. When it is followed by a past or habitual action it takes the indicative.

The reasoning for this is that the indicative mood declares things but when something hasn't happened yet it can't be declared (that probably takes a bit of getting your head around but if you work on it you'll get there).

That might give you a clue as to which one uses the subjunctive.

If you don't know what the subjunctive looks like then you might need to check out some conjugation charts for the verbs 'ir' and 'estar' - then you'll be sure to spot whether it's 'vengas' or 'estoy' that is in the subjunctive mood and based on the above hopefully you'll also understand why.

updated Jan 14, 2013
posted by Kiwi-Girl
Thank you!! - CheekyNi, Jan 14, 2013
de nada :) - Kiwi-Girl, Jan 14, 2013