Lesson 81

Feeling Something About What Happened

Language Transfer Complete Spanish is by Mihalis Eleftheriou. Listen to the original audio first; use these notes for revision.

Volver a + infinitive = to do again. Very common alternative to otra vez: No quiero que vuelva a pasar = I don't want it to happen again ("I don't want it to return to happen").

Past subjunctive formation: From the "they" preterite, replace -ron with -ra:

hablaron → hablara, hablaras, habláramos, hablaran
comieron → comiera, comieras, comiéramos, comieran

Sentences practiced

Spanish	English
No quiero que la puerta se me cierre.	I don't want the door to close on me.
No quiero que la puerta se me cierre otra vez.	I don't want the door to close on me again.
No quiero que la puerta vuelva a cerrarse.	I don't want the door to close again. (volver a)
No quiero que vuelva a pasar.	I don't want it to happen again.
Hablaran.	They spoke (past subj).
Hablaras.	You spoke.
Habláramos.	We spoke.
Comieran.	They ate (past subj).
Comiera.	I ate.
Comiéramos.	We ate.
Comieras.	You ate.