Another Time for Using the Subjunctive Mood

If you were to summarize in a few words when to use the subjunctive mood, you might talk about its use in expressions of doubt or emotion. However, there's another time as well, one that's easy to miss when you're learning the language: when expressing value judgments. We not necessarily taking about profound judgments either. Even to say something like "es importante que ..." (it's important that ...) requires use of the subjunctive, as explained in our new lesson on using the subjunctive mood.