Lesson
11.1 Verbs Subjunctive
& Future Simple 1
If you look up the verb αγοράζω in
the dictionary you will find three of its forms
αγοράζω
/ να αγοράσω
/ αγόρασα
You will be familiar first form so we will deal with the second
in this lesson and with the third in later lessons
θέλω
να
αγοράσω
ένα
αυτοκίνητο
means I want to buy a car
Note that this verb
switches endings from ζω to σω
when it follows να
Here are the rest
of the endings:
| Do you want
to buy..............?
|
θέλεις
να αγοράσεις.............;
|
| He
wants to buy.............
|
θέλει
να αγοράσει............
|
| We
want to buy........
|
θέλουμε
να
αγοράσουμε..............
|
| Do
you want to buy.........?
|
θέλετε
να αγοράσετε.............;
|
| They
want to buy..........
|
θέλουν
να αγοράσουν
|
When a verb follows
να it changes to the subjunctive
form. Loosely speaking the word να
means to when it is used in the above situation.
The subjunctive
form can also follow θα to form the
future simple tense of a verb, so with
αγοράζω we get:
|
θα
αγοράσω
|
I will buy
|
|
θα
αγοράσεις
|
you will buy
|
|
θα
αγοράσει
|
he, she, it
will buy
|
|
θα
αγοράσουμε
|
we will buy
|
|
θα
αγοράσετε
|
you will buy
|
|
θα
αγοράσουν
|
they will buy
|
The subjunctives of
verbs ending in ζω and -νω
often end in σω.
Those with ύω
endings with ψω.
All
the subjunctives of verbs used in the Crosswords are in the dictionary.
Examples
of usage are as follows:
| I want to
read that book
|
θέλω
να διαβάσω
εκείνο
το βιβλίο
|
| Ι
will read that book tomorrow
|
θα
διαβάσω
εκείνο
το βιβλίο
αύριο
|
| Ι
want to cook this food today
|
θέλω
να μαγειρέψω
αυτό το
φαγητό
σήμερα
|
| I
will cook the food tomorrow
|
θα
μαγειρέψω
το
φαγητό
αύριο
|
| I
will clean it tomorrow
|
θα
το καθαρίσω
αύριο
|
If we examine the
last sentence above it implies that it is a one-off event. This is known as
the Future Simple tense. If we change the sentence to I will clean
it every day then the cleaning will take place over and over again and this
is called the Future Continuous tense, which we will deal with later.
Now
try Crosswords 19 & 20