Let's express abstract ideas using Spanish subjunctives.

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In the previous episode, we learned the subjunctive forms of ser and estar, and we started using them along with intentions, such as hope or want.

For example, I hope that they are here is not I hope that estan here, but instead, I hope that esten here.

But I also hinted that there are other sentence templates that require the use of the subjunctive.

A really good example of this involves our preposition,

which very often implies some sort of intention.

We already know how to use it in pretty simple intention

situations. For example, that is for the boy.

In cases like this, para means something like intended for. But we've also been practicing the

phrase, para que, which indicates an intention that something be the case. This will always be

followed by a subjunctive, no matter what kind of verb occurs before it.

Here's an example.

We did it so that you be here.

Nosotros lo did for que estes here.

Nosotros lo is we did for that you estes here.

But the English translation of estes is weird here. We do use the phrase, so that, or in order that, a lot in English, but we don't say so that you be here, or in order that you be here.

Instead, we typically say, we did it so that you would be here,

or we did it so that you could be here, or we did it in order for you to be here. These are all

very confusing and jumbled. In Spanish, it's very mechanical and simple. If you do something with an

intended outcome for someone or something else, you'll use para que. And then you'll follow it with a

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