¿Hay otra posibilidad?

RalphC1Kwiziq community member

¿Hay otra posibilidad?

I hope that you arrived last night.

Could you translate this as:

Espero que llegaras anoche

Mil gracias

This question relates to:Spanish lesson "Using the Spanish present perfect subjunctive after esperar que to express a completed action in the past"

Asked 3 years ago

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InmaKwiziq team memberCorrect answer

Hola Stavroula

With the timeframe "anoche" (last night) we'd prefer to use the imperfect subjunctive:

Espero que llegaras anoche.

The present perfect subjunctive would be more appropriate for a timeframe like "esta mañana", which puts us still inside that timeframe when we say it:

Espero que hayas llegado esta mañana.

Saludos

Like12 months ago

InmaKwiziq team member

Hola Ralph

Yes, absolutely! That is correct.

Inma

Like03 years ago

StavroulaB1Kwiziq community member

So, that means that in the example "I hope that you arrived last night", both preterito imperfecto and preterito perfecto are correct?

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Ralph asked:View original

¿Hay otra posibilidad?

I hope that you arrived last night.

Could you translate this as:

Espero que llegaras anoche

Mil gracias

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