Breakdown of Me voy a recostar tan pronto como el repartidor entregue el paquete.
ir
to go
a
to
pronto
soon
el paquete
the package
tan
as / so
como
as / like (such as, similar to)
entregar
to hand over, to deliver
recostarse
to lie down
el repartidor
the delivery person
Questions & Answers about Me voy a recostar tan pronto como el repartidor entregue el paquete.
Why is entregue in the subjunctive here?
The phrase tan pronto como (as soon as) sets up a time clause. Because the action of delivering the package is a pending future event that hasn't happened yet, Spanish requires the present subjunctive entregue. If you were talking about a routine delivery that happens every day, you would use the indicative instead.
Why does entregue have a "u" in it when the infinitive is entregar?
This is a spelling change to preserve the pronunciation. The present subjunctive of entregar takes an -e ending. If we just wrote entrege, the "g" would soften and sound like an English "h" before the "e". Adding the "u" to make entregue keeps the hard "g" sound of the original verb.
Why use recostarse instead of acostarse for lying down?
Could I attach the pronoun me to the end of the verb instead of putting it at the beginning?
Yes, absolutely! When you have a conjugated verb followed by an infinitive, you have two options for placing the reflexive pronoun. You can put it before the conjugated verb (Me voy a recostar) or attach it directly to the infinitive (Voy a recostarme). Both are completely correct and used interchangeably.
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