Subjunctive or indicative after 'cuando' in Spanish? | A Coffee Break with Pablo

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we'll hear from Pablo from the Coffee Break Spanish team. This time, a Spanish proverb gives us the perfect opportunity to explore one of those classic Spanish grammar challenges: when to use the subjunctive vs. the indicative after the word cuando.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, how you go?
0:04.0	I hope that's great.
0:06.0	This is Coffee Break Spanish.
0:09.0	I am Pablo and today it's my turn to join you for a little coffee break.
0:16.0	Get ready because we are about to talk about a very useful word in Spanish.
0:22.6	The word, when, and when to use it with the subjunctive.
0:29.6	All right,
0:30.6	basically the other day I was speaking to my colleague Annabel, and she was telling me that
0:42.5	she had actually spotted a toad coming towards her in her own garden.
0:49.2	Not exactly the kind of visitor you expect with your morning coffee, to be fair.
0:54.9	But this automatically reminded me of a lovely Spanish saying, my grand seis.
1:03.5	When do you see as a sapo and dar,
1:08.0	Agua primaveral.
1:11.8	Literally,
1:14.5	when you see the toad walk spring water
1:16.1	But what it means, in other words,
1:19.0	is that when the toads
1:20.5	come out, spring is
1:22.5	officially here.
1:24.4	But again, what really caught my
1:26.4	attention was the grammar.
1:28.8	Of course, as a linguist, I can't help these things.
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