There are many things that are pretty awesome about the rest of the subjunctive tenses, aside from the fact that I am not covering the subjunctive future tenses since they are not used in modern Spanish. First, they require a very small amount of explanation because the main concept of Subjunctive still remains the same for these next 3 tenses. Second, there is no preterite past tense in subjunctive, so preterite vs. imperfect need not apply here. It's going to be pretty fun.
To create a subjunctive imperfect stem, you must know how to conjugate the preterite form of ellos/ellas. Instead of using the preterite of a stem, you use the 3rd person plural of the preterite, minus -ron. For example:
Comer → comieron →comier- →comiera
I'll jump straight to the verb conjugations. There are actually 2 tables of conjugations that I should go over. You can use either one, but the first of them is more widespread, so I personally recommend using the first one, though you'll be understood either way.
Subjuntivo imperfecto 1:
Yo: -ra
Tú: -ras
Él, ella, ud: -ra
Nosotros: -ramos
Vosotros: -rais
Ellos/ellas, uds: -ran
Espero que comieras hoy. ｜I hope that you ate today.
Deseo que me llamaras. ｜I wish that you called me.
Maravillo que ella hablara ayer. ｜I wonder if she spoke yesterday.
No pienso que fueras veraz. ｜I don't think that you were truthful.
Subjuntivo imperfecto 2: (Note: if I have gotten these wrong, please let me know; I have not studied these endings very much.)
Yo: -se
Tú: -ses
Él, ella, ud: -se
Nosotros: -semos
Vosotros: -seis
Ellos/ellas, uds: -sen
I'll just give the subjunctive verbs here:
- Comer →comierses
- Llamar →llamarses
- Hablar →hablare
- Ser → Fueses
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