Monday, September 20, 2021

Vaya Con Dios

El segundo parte de Track #73 tambien sobre el tiempo mood. Mihalis says we use the mood tense after cuando when you are refering to the future. 
  • When we speak (generally) - Cuando hablamos
  • When we speak (later on) - Cuando hablemos
The use of the mood tense highlights a superstition about referring to something in the future as a fact. 
  • When we eat together, we speak (generally) - Cuando comemos juntos, hablamos.
  • When we eat together, we speak (in the future) - Cuando comamos juntos, hablamos.
We still use hablamos, since we are using the mood tense earlier in the sentence.

Voy - I go or I am going
Vaya is the root of the mood tense
  • We see her, when we go (generally) - La vemos, cuando vamos.
  • We see her, when we go (in the future) - La vemos, cuando vayamos.
Which brings me to the multi-media portion of today's posting. I grew up listening to my dad singing this song. It was one of his favorites.



2 comments:

  1. I have a friend, who knows I know some Spanish...Whenever I see him, he just says “Vaya con Dios” as that is the only Spanish he knows

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