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in the present indicative, all singular forms and the third-person plural (pido, pides, pide, piden); the remaining forms of the present subjunctive (pida, pidas, pidan); the tú form of the imperative (pide). The forms which do not undergo either diphthongizing or vowel raising are:
The article additionally solves the problem posed by the alternate verbal forms of Chilean voseo like the future indicative (e.g. bailaríh or bailarái 'you will dance'), the present indicative forms of haber (habíh and hai 'you have'), and the present indicative of ser (soi, eríh and eréi 'you are'), without resorting to any ad hoc rules ...
Indicative (Indicativo) yo tú vos [1] él / ella / usted nosotros / nosotras vosotros / vosotras [2] ellos / ellas / ustedes; Present (Presente) amo: amas: amás: ama: amamos: amáis: aman: Imperfect (Pretérito imperfecto or copretérito) amaba: amabas: amaba: amábamos: amabais: amaban: Preterite (Pretérito perfecto simple or Pretérito ...
In the present subjunctive, the same rules as for the present indicative apply, though these forms coexist in Argentina with those for the pronoun tú: Que vosotros digáis – que vos digás; Or: Que tú digas – que vos digas; Other tenses always have the same form for vos as for tú. Outside Argentina, other combinations are possible.
The choice between present subjunctive and imperfect subjunctive is determined by the tense of the main verb of the sentence. The future subjunctive is rarely used in modern Spanish and mostly appears in old texts, legal documents, and certain fixed expressions, such as venga lo que viniere ("come what may").
The present indicative of most verbs in modern English has the same form as the infinitive, except for the third-person singular form, which takes the ending -[e]s. The verb be has the forms am, is, are. For details, see English verbs. For the present subjunctive, see English subjunctive.
For regular -ar verbs, the simple present subjunctive is formed by removing the inflectional -o of the first-person present indicative and adding one of these endings: -e (first and third person singular), -es (second person singular), -emos (first person plural), -éis (second person plural), and -en (third person plural). [49]
Although a /g/ has been added to the stems of many verbs' first-person singular present indicative and present subjunctive forms, such as caigo/caiga from earlier cayo/caya, some other forms such as haiga, common in literary Spanish until the 17th century, are now restricted to nonstandard speech. [32]