Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Secret Wars

A variety of simple future and subjunctive tenses from Secret Wars, an excuse for all of Marvel's characters to fight at one time:


"Bulldozer! Stabilize this thing or I won't be able to shoot!"  "It's not my fault idiot! It's...Oh, no!" 

"That's it Hulky!  Knock 'em down!"

"When you can bend metal with your bare hands, you can give me orders Torch!  Until then, I'll obey our boss, Captain America, and no one else.  Understood?"





Notes:
poder has the irregular stem podr in the future: poderpodré, podrás, podrá,...

The Hulk is sometimes translated as La Masa (the Mass, the Chunk), or, diminutively Masita.  

Since the Hulk is referring to an event which may or may not happen (the Torch being able to bend metal with his hands) the cuando here triggers the subjunctive.

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