Breakdown of Si apagas la hoguera, no sobreviviremos.
no
no / not
si
if
apagar
to turn off / to put out (a fire)
la hoguera
the campfire
sobrevivir
to survive
Questions & Answers about Si apagas la hoguera, no sobreviviremos.
Why is apagas in the present tense if the sentence is talking about a future situation?
In Spanish, when making a statement about a realistic possibility (the first conditional), the verb immediately following si (if) is always in the present tense. We never use the future tense directly after si. So, we use the present apagas for the condition, and the future sobreviviremos for the result.
Why doesn't si have an accent mark here?
The word si without an accent mark means "if." When it has an accent mark (sí), it means "yes." It is a very small detail, but it completely changes the meaning of the word!
Does apagar only mean "to put out" a fire?
How exactly is the future tense formed in sobreviviremos?
To form the future tense for regular verbs, we do not drop the ending like we do in the present tense. Instead, we keep the entire infinitive verb, which is sobrevivir (to survive), and add the future ending onto it. The "we" ending for the future tense is -emos, giving us sobreviviremos (we will survive).
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