Past subjunctive for "will"
I want to say "I felt excited that I would be traveling to Spain next week."
I think that the first part is "Me sintió emocionada que...," but I don't know how to write the second part. It should be past subjunctive I think. But how do you write the past subjunctive for "will?" There is no direct translation of "will" in Spanish, right?
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Muchas gracias
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The right way it would be: "Me sentí emocionada porque estaría viajando a España la semana siguiente".
Me sentí = I felt something (by myself)
Me sintió = HE/SHE felt something (about me).
It's like in English, for reported speech, you're talking about something that happened in the past (I felt excited) and you also mention something that was going to happen probably in the past (conditional "I would be" = "yo estaría").
On the other hand, if what you want to express is something as, let´s say, "I felt excited...(past) I WILL be travelling... (future continuos, something that is going to happen), then the right way woul be:
"Me sentí emocionada por que estaré viajando a España la semana próxima" (past - felt, future - will be).
Hope it's useful, have a nice day.
Frank, bilingual teacher from Spain.
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Me siento emocionada que estaré viajando a España la próxima semana.
There's no literal "will" in Spanish, you need to use the correct conjugation of the verb. In this case: will be --> estaré. The verb to be.
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