Breakdown of Quizás hacemos una fogata si el clima mejora.
una
a, an (feminine)
hacer
to do / to make
el clima
weather
mejorar
to improve
si
if
quizás
perhaps / maybe
la fogata
the campfire
Questions & Answers about Quizás hacemos una fogata si el clima mejora.
Why does this sentence use the indicative hacemos after quizás instead of the subjunctive hagamos?
When using adverbs of probability like quizás, you can choose the indicative or the subjunctive. Using the indicative (hacemos) shows that the speaker feels it is highly likely they will make a campfire. If they felt more doubtful about it, they would use the subjunctive (hagamos).
Is there a difference between quizá and quizás?
Since the sentence implies a future event, why isn't mejora in the future tense?
In Spanish, when you use si (if) for a realistic condition that might happen in the future, the verb right after si is always in the present tense. You cannot use the future tense directly after si in this type of sentence.
Wait, why is it el clima if the word ends in '-a'? Shouldn't it be feminine?
Clima is an exception to the rule. It is a masculine noun, so it takes el. This happens with several common Spanish words of Greek origin that end in '-ma', such as el problema, el idioma, and el sistema.
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