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El gobierno protegerá el hábitat natural hasta que el animal salvaje se recupere.

El gobierno protegerá el hábitat natural hasta que el animal salvaje se recupere.
The government will protect the natural habitat until the wild animal recovers.
From Lesson 200:Future time clauses (cuando, en cuanto)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about El gobierno protegerá el hábitat natural hasta que el animal salvaje se recupere.

Why do we use the subjunctive recupere instead of the present indicative recupera?
Because the recovery hasn't happened yet! In Spanish, when you use a temporal trigger like hasta que (until) to talk about an event that is still in the future, you must use the present subjunctive. The first verb, protegerá (will protect), clearly sets this up as a future scenario.
Why is there a se before recupere?
It comes from the pronominal verb recuperarse, which means to recover in the sense of healing or getting one's health back. If you used recuperar without the se, it would mean to recover or get back a lost physical object.
Why does hábitat have a written accent mark?
In Spanish, words are categorized by where the spoken stress falls. The spoken stress in hábitat falls on the third-to-last syllable. Words with this stress pattern always require a written accent mark to break the standard pronunciation rules.
How is the verb protegerá formed?
It is the simple future tense of proteger (to protect). To form the future tense for regular verbs, you keep the entire infinitive (proteger) and add the future endings. Here, the ending is -á to match the third-person singular subject, el gobierno.

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