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Me gustaria + Imperfect Subjuntive
How common is this construction?
For example: Me gustaría que vinieras a mi fiesta. The party is in the future. I assume using the present subjunctive is more common - and it depends on the point of view of the speaker (being optimistic: present subjunctive vs. pessimistic: imperfect subjunctive. Ojalá/Deseo/Quero/Sugiero que vengas a mi fiesta Ojalá/Deseo/Quero/Sugiero que vinieras a mi fiesta But how often is Me gustaria or any conditional used with the imperfect subjunctive to talk about the future? Sería mejor que vinieras a mi fiesta. Gracias. |
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The imperfect subjunctive on its own is very polite when it implies the present. For example: Quisiera hablar con el gerente.
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"Me gustaría que vinieras a mi fiesta" is the best way to ask someone to come to my party. It uses the conditional as a polite request, and the past subjunctive agrees with the conditional.
Some people would also say "Me gustaría que vengas a mi fiesta". The speaker here has in mind the fact that the party hasn't taken place yet, and they express some certainty that the invitation will be accepted. Quote:
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Thanks for both of you poli and Angelica and I'll note your comments and save them.
Much appreciated! I'll take special note on "Sugiero" and "Seria mejor" also. Gracias. |
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Glad you found it useful.
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Oh, don't thank me because I believe I gave you bad info.
I wonder how you would say I would have liked you to have come to my party which is what I thought me gustaría que vinieras a mi fiesta meant.
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@Poli: If it had all happened in the past, we would have said "me habría gustado que vinieras a mi fiesta". The perfect tense expresses the fact that it's no longer possible that you came to my party.
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"Perfect" you note as in pluscuamperfecto?
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No, it was my mistake to take "perfect" as any compound tense.
I was rather thinking of the "antepospretérito", also known as "condicional compuesto" ("me habría gustado"), which is the equivalent of the third conditional in English ("I would have liked..."). The "pretérito pluscuamperfecto" (or "antecopretérito") would have been something like "me había invitado a su fiesta". The action happened and was completed all in the past.
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