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French Subjunctive Mood

A verb mood, not a tense: French switches from indicative to subjunctive when a subordinate clause expresses something filtered through will, emotion, doubt, or judgment rather than asserted as fact. The trigger lives in the main clause; the subjunctive verb sits in the que-clause.

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A verb mood, not a tense: French switches from indicative to subjunctive when a subordinate clause expresses something filtered through will, emotion, doubt, or judgment rather than asserted as fact. The trigger lives in the main clause; the subjunctive verb sits in the que-clause.

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