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Ya la reconstruiremos cuando pasen las vacaciones.

Ya la reconstruiremos cuando pasen las vacaciones.
We'll rebuild it later, when the holidays are over.
From Lesson 459:Pragmatic displacement (ya)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Ya la reconstruiremos cuando pasen las vacaciones.

I thought ya meant "already." Why is it translated as "later" here?
When you pair ya with a future tense verb like reconstruiremos, it shifts the action to an unspecified time in the future. It acts as a way to reassure someone or brush off a concern, meaning something like "don't worry, we'll do it later."
Could I just say después instead of ya to mean "later"?
You could, but it changes the tone. Después la reconstruiremos is a flat statement of fact about a timeline. Using ya adds a layer of reassurance, like saying, "We'll get around to it later, don't stress about it now."
Why is pasar in the subjunctive mood (pasen) here instead of the indicative (pasan)?
The word cuando triggers the subjunctive whenever it introduces an event that hasn't happened yet. Since the holidays haven't passed yet, we need the present subjunctive pasen. If you were talking about a habit, you would use the indicative pasan.
Why is the subject (las vacaciones) placed after the verb (pasen)?
In Spanish, it's very common to invert the subject and verb in dependent clauses, especially after words like cuando, donde, or que. Saying cuando las vacaciones pasen is grammatically fine, but cuando pasen las vacaciones sounds much more natural to native speakers.

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