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Is this the subjunctive?
"Cualquier cosa que necesites, acá estamos"
Why is "necesitar" in the subjunctive?
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Because "que necesites" is 100% an adjective and nothing specific is borne in mind while saying it (let's avoid the awful theories about the needed thing being unknown to the speaker). Indicative appears when there's a specific thing and "la cosa que necesitas" becomes a portmanteau for that specific thing. In the last case "que necesitas" is also an "adjective", but in the same way "of América" is an "adjective" to specify, thus identify, "the United States"
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You could argue that it is also subjunctive in English: "Anything you may need" being something undefined.
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Wouldn't be in the subjunctive if I said "Anything you need"?
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Ah well, the subjunctive is sometimes invisible. I still think an explicit subjunctive would be better.
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Yo siempre lo pienso como:
anything you need = lo que necesites/e/eis/en anything you may need = lo que pudieras/a/ais/an (llegar a) necesitar aunque tengo entendido que "may" es más vacilante en inglés británico que en inglés americano, y yo lo estoy pensando "a la británica". ¿Qué opinan?
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So, in my example the subjunctive is kind of concealed...? |
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Anything you may need = Cualquier cosa que puedas necesitar Anything you might need = Cualquier cosa que pudieras necesitar Yes? Quote:
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