which one to choose here, estresas-estreses?
1. Estrás muy ocupado con tu trabajo y a lo mejor te estresas-estreses más de lo normal. No te preocupes, ya llegará el fin de semana y quizá entonces consigas descansar. No desesperes.
which one to choose here, estresas-estreses?
Note: I have an exercise book, it just gave me the answer, but no explanations. I need your help on this, any one who could explain it in a detailed grammatically way would be very much appreciated.
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Grammatically the correct way is 'estreses' using the subjunctive, but we also say 'estresas' very often so it's not bad. If it's a formal text you'd better say the correct tense 'estreses.'
I am a native Spanish speaker.
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Just a minor "typo" at the start of your text => *Estás (no "EstRás") muy ocupado.
As for the rest, Juliana is totally right in her reasoning, but i am afraid that saying "y a lo mejor te ESTRESES más de lo normal" is not correct in this case. In this case, "y a lo mejor te ESTRESAS" is the right way to say it.
My personal advice is that you try to avoid use of Subjunctive unless we're talking very hypothetical situations. With a deeper mastering of spanish grammar and knowledge of expressions & verbs employed in each situation, use of subjunctive will come naturally to you :-)
Besides being a complicated tense -even for spaniards, who, in some regions refuse to use it in ordinary talking, resorting instead to the Indicative-Conditional tenses- it leaves room for exceptions too, as in this very case.
Best regards from Oviedo, in Spain!!
Fernando.
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