Breakdown of El picnic será el sábado, salvo que no haya disponibilidad.
ser
to be
no
no, not
haber
to be (there is / there are)
el sábado
Saturday
el picnic
picnic
salvo que
unless
la disponibilidad
availability
Questions & Answers about El picnic será el sábado, salvo que no haya disponibilidad.
Why do we use the subjunctive haya instead of the indicative hay after salvo que?
Conjunctions of exception like salvo que, a menos que, and a no ser que always trigger the subjunctive. This is because they introduce a hypothetical condition that hasn't happened yet, which could prevent the main action from occurring.
Could I use a menos que instead of salvo que in this sentence?
Yes! Salvo que, a menos que, and a no ser que are all used to express exceptions and are virtually interchangeable here. No matter which one you choose, you still must use the subjunctive verb haya.
Why does this sentence use será instead of estará for the time of the picnic?
What verb does haya come from, and how is it working here?
Haya is the present subjunctive form of the impersonal verb haber (which gives us hay, meaning there is or there are). We use it here to translate the phrase unless there is no availability.
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