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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn just a few more forms of our verbs,

which will allow us to use some of the most advanced

sentence templates in Spanish. First, let's talk about something really weird that happens

in English. See if you can tell what's going on with the first verb in this sentence. If I

were taller, I would be a basketball player. So here's the question. What does

I were mean in this sentence? If I were taller. Normally we say I am or I was, not I were.

So shouldn't we change this to I was?

But wait, no, in this situation, it shouldn't even be in the past tense at all,

because we're actually sort of talking about the present.

But the fact is, in reality, this is correct. In English, the phrase, if I were, is used to indicate something that we know isn't true.

When you say, if I were taller, or if I were president, you're talking hypothetically about

something you know isn't true. The word for this in Spanish is Fuerra, spelled F-U-E-R-A.

This is the past tense

subjunctive of

CER.

So here's a sentence example.

If he were your friend,

he'd be here.

In English, we simply used the word were for all of these situations but in Spanish we use a tense and mood that's all its own.

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