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Quedamos en contactar a la promoción cuando termine la reunión.

Quedamos en contactar a la promoción cuando termine la reunión.
We agreed to contact the graduating class when the meeting ends.
From Lesson 254:Agreeing on plans (quedar en)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Quedamos en contactar a la promoción cuando termine la reunión.

Why do we use quedar en here instead of a verb like acordar to mean "agreed"?
The phrase quedar en followed by an infinitive, like contactar, is an everyday, conversational way to say "to agree to do something" or "to make a plan to do something." While acordar is also correct, quedar en is much more common for making casual plans.
Why is there an a right before la promoción?
This is the "personal a." In Spanish, when the direct object of a verb is a person or a specific group of people, you must put an a in front of it. Because la promoción refers to a group of students, it requires this personal a.
Wait, doesn't promoción mean a sale or getting a better job?
It can mean a sales promotion or a job promotion, but in Latin America, la promoción is also the standard way to say "the graduating class" of a school or university. You will often hear students refer to it as la promo for short.
Why is the verb terminar in the subjunctive form (termine)?
We use the subjunctive mood after cuando anytime we are talking about an action in the future that hasn't happened yet. Since the meeting hasn't ended at the moment of speaking, we must use termine. If we were talking about a routine, like "when the meeting ends every week," we would use the regular present tense termina.

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