Learn Spanish (Latin America): Cuando encuentre un asistente bilingüe con experiencia, voy a descansar. - When I find a bilingual assistant with experience, I am going to rest.

Cuando encuentre un asistente bilingüe con experiencia, voy a descansar.

When I find a bilingual assistant with experience, I am going to rest.

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Why is encuentre in the subjunctive here?

In Spanish, we use the subjunctive after cuando when we are talking about an action or event in the future that hasn't happened yet. Because you haven't found the assistant yet, you must use the subjunctive encuentre instead of the regular present tense encuentro.

Since we are talking about a person (an assistant), why isn't there a personal "a" before un asistente?

We generally only use the personal "a" when the person is specific or known to us. Since you are talking about an indefinite, unknown assistant that you haven't found yet, you leave out the personal "a". This matches perfectly with the lesson's theme of talking about unknown people!

I know encontrar is a stem-changing verb. Does that change still happen in the subjunctive?

Yes! For most stem-changing verbs like encontrar (which changes from o to ue), the change still happens in the present subjunctive for all forms except nosotros and vosotros. So, the yo form becomes encuentre.

Why does bilingüe have those two dots over the u?