Il Congiuntivo
Lorenzo Baglioni
The Subjunctive
That I am
That I was
That I have been
Oh-oh-oh
Nowadays, whoever courts
Encounters more and more difficulties
With verbs in the subjunctive
So it's time to reopen
The grammar manual
Which is very educational
Imperative gerund
And indicative infinitive
Many tenses and many conjugations but
The subjunctive has a distinctive role
And is used for events
That are not real
It's relative to what is subjective
Unlike other verb forms
And now that you know it too
You won't get it wrong anymore
In case the period is of the unreality type (it's known)
The subjunctive is needed
Like if you had used
The past subjunctive
It wouldn't have gone so bad with her
Conditional
Follow the consecutio temporum
The subjunctive has a distinctive role
And is used for events
That are not real
It's relative to what is subjective
Unlike other verb forms
And now let's review some verbs in the subjunctive
That I am (present)
That I was (imperfect)
That I have been (past)
That I had been (pluperfect)
That I have (present)
That I had (imperfect)
That I have had (past)
That I had had (pluperfect)
That I would like
The subjunctive
As I was telling you
Is used in this type of syntactic construct
The attempt is almost reflexive
Described by the following didactic example
And now that you know it too
You won't get it wrong anymore
