“Let’s see,” you may say to yourself about three-quarters through the typical first-year Spanish course, “how many verb tenses have we studied? 1. Present Indicative; 2. Imperfect Indicative; 3.

No creo que Ana venga a la fiesta. - I don’t think Ana will come to the party. Quizás Hugo vaya al cine. - Perhaps Hugo will go to the cinema.

The Subjunctive is used in subordinate sentences in Spanish most of the time but not always. The problem is how to ascertain when the Indicative is called for. In this page, following a method due to ...