August 18 Word of the day

Question

Word of the day: August 18 emocionar? (verb) to excite, to move

Examples 1: A mí me emociona que vaya a ir a España la semana que viene.

I'm excited that I'm going to Spain next week.

• This pair does not entirely match.. The corresponding sentence in Spanish (Spain) would be:

"Me emociona ir a España la semana que viene."

"A mí me emociona que vaya a ir a España la semana que viene", would translate as I'm excited that you/he/she is going to Spain next week.

I think it is talking about an action in the third person . = It excites me to be going to Spain. Your example says , To me excited about going to Spain , just does not make sense. - ray76, Aug 25, 2014

Welcome to the forum mate , a good question and one well worthy of an answer from a Spanish native , one will mosey by shortly .Good luck mate. - ray76, Aug 25, 2014

Gemrius is right : plus infinitive if the subject in both parts of the sentence is the same, que + subj. ( on account of 'emocionar') if the subject is different. - Castor77, Aug 25, 2014

Castor is right that Gemrius is right, there is no reason to use subjunctive here, it is technically grammatically correct if you say "yo vaya" but not natural. - bosquederoble, Aug 25, 2014

Thank you for pointing this out gemrius. Please do me a favor and send something like this to me in a pm so I can correct it. Thanks - rac1, Aug 25, 2014

Answer 1

That's what I am, a Spanish native...

Thanks Castor 77. BTW, I'm checking previous "Word of the day" posts and unfortunately most are, if not incorrect, "debatable"... - gemrius, Aug 25, 2014

Thanks. When you see an error like this, please do me the courtesy of sending me a pm so I can correct. Muchas gracias. - rac1, Aug 25, 2014

Thanks for the pm. I cannot change what the admins. write when they issue the palabra del dia. That is probably why I used another sentence on the thread that day. - rac1, Aug 25, 2014