Learn Hardcore Spanish (Spain): Si vuelvo a desmayarme, mi madre quiere llevarme directamente a urgencias. - If I faint again, my mother wants to take me straight to the emergency room.

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Si vuelvo a desmayarme, mi madre quiere llevarme directamente a urgencias.

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If I faint again, my mother wants to take me straight to the emergency room.

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Breakdown of Si vuelvo a desmayarme, mi madre quiere llevarme directamente a urgencias.

Why is it si vuelvo a... and not si volveré a...?

After si meaning if, Spanish normally uses the present indicative to talk about a real future possibility:

Spanish does not usually use the future tense after si in this kind of sentence. So si volveré sounds wrong here.

A very useful pattern is:

What does volver a + infinitive mean?

Volver a + infinitive means to do something again.

So:

In your sentence:

Here, volver does not mean to return in the literal movement sense. It is part of the expression volver a + infinitive.

Why is it desmayarme? Why does the verb have -me?