Summary p276

276 CONYERSATIONAL PORTUGUESE

£ posshel que ele o faęa. It is possible that he will

do it.

£preciso que cheguemos It is necessary that we antes das nove.    arrive before nine.

Notę: If the statement is generał and there is iu specific subject for the second verb the infinitiy is used:

£ posshelfaze-ło.    It is possible to do it.

£ preciso chegar antes It is necessary to arrive das nove.    before nine.

e. The subjunctive is used after various eon junctive adverbs.

1. Certain conjunctive adverbs tend to be followed regularly by the subjunctive:

£le me escreveu para    He wrote me in order

que (or afim de que) that I know the news. eu soubesse a noticia.

2. Some conjunctions, as de forma que, de I maneira que, de modo que, “so,” “so that,” are followed by the subjunctive if they indi-cate a purpose not yet attained, and by the] indicative if they indicate a result in the past:

I ran so that I would arrive on time.

I didn’t run, so I didn’t arrive on time.

Corri de maneira que chegasse na hora.

Ndo corri, de maneira que ndo cheguei na hora.

Ainda que and embora “although” tend to folk this pattem in Portugal, although in Brazil they] are usually followed by the subjunctive in cases:

3. Certain conjunctions are followed by the subjunctive if the verb indicates a condition or action in the futurę; otherwise by the in-dicative. Among the conjunctions which are followed by the present or futurę subjunctive are ate ąue “until,” como “as,” conforme “as, according as,” ąuando “when,” segundo “as, according as”:

1*11 speak to them when they arrive.

1 spoke to them when they arrived.

Eu Ihes falo ąuando chegarem (fut. subj.).

Eu Ihes fałei ąuando chegaram (preterit, past tense).

4, The subjunctive is used after a relative pro-noun with a negative or indefinite antecedent and in some indefinite or altemate types of expressions:

Quero um livro ąue me I want a book that will

explique isto.

Ndo ha ninguem aąui ąue fale russo.

Seja como Jor¹... Como Deus ąuiser.

Embora estudasse, ndo aprendi muito.

Although I studied, I didn’t leam much.

explain this to me. There is nobody here who speaks Russian. Be that as it may...

As God wishes.

5. The futurę subjunctive can be used as indi-cated in section 4; it is especially used after conjunctions of time, such as ao passo ąue “while,” assim ąue “as soon as,” depois ąue “after,” enąuanto “while,” logo ąue “as soon

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