Always infinitive?

Question

I understand that verbs that follow antes de, despues de, para, and sin are always infinitive , but are there others?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Verbs that directly follow a preposition are going to be as an infinitive. You can do that if the subject of the verb is obvious. But in some cases you can and need to add a que and conjugate the verb following- and depending on what the preposition is that might need to be subjunctive. Not everything can be done that way and you have to practice to see the possibities.

This gives some on the subjunctive vs. infinitive

http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/courses/SUBJADV.HTM

This is a lesson on the use of infinitives with prepositions.

http://spanish.about.com/cs/verbs/a/infinitive_prep.htm

Examples from the last link:

Examples: Roberto salió sin verte. Roberto left without seeing you. Saldrá después de comer. She will leave after eating. Chile ganó por no seguir a la ortodoxia. Chile won by not following orthodoxy. Todos los niñitos se conformaban con aprender su letra de molde. All the children resigned themselves to learning how to print.

In the above examples con, por, and a are also used. “Al” is another, as is hasta. There likely are others I am not thinking of currently.

Some sentences I wrote to show possibilities:

Al llegar, el comió. Upon arriving he ate.

Él comió después de llegar. He ate after arriving.

Él comió después de que ella llegó. He ate after she arrived. Note you have to conjugate after que, you cannot say después de ella llegar.

Él comió hasta que ella llegara. He ate until she arrived. Hasta que always is subjunctive.

First off, I really appreciate the help. I am doing a bit of studying on when to use the subjunctive, indicative, and infinitive,and to my knowledge wouldn't hasta que also be able to cue the indicative since it may cue a "routing", "fact", or "result"? - ZombieTrainer, Feb 27, 2017

routine* - ZombieTrainer, Feb 27, 2017

No, see my first link. It has tables of always subjunctive and sometimes. Hasta que and antes de que always refer to something in the future relevant to the referant, even if the whole thing is in the past now. So always subjunctive. - bosquederoble, Feb 27, 2017

The referent is the clause that precedes the hasta que or antes que- and that will always be an action that occurs before the clause that follows. :) - bosquederoble, Feb 28, 2017

That first link- the jehle one- is an excellent concise summary of the matter, well worth reading, as are all his articles. The second is Erichsen who is also quite good :) - bosquederoble, Feb 28, 2017