Invitares

Invitares is a verb form from the Spanish verb invitar. It is the second-person singular form (tú) of the verb in the rarely used future subjunctive mood. This mood is largely historical or literary in modern Spanish, and invitares is not common in everyday speech.

Grammatical details show that future subjunctive forms come from an archaic tense system. For -ar verbs like invitar, the endings in the future subjunctive include -ares for the tú form, yielding invitares. Other persons would have forms such as invitare, invitáramos, invitareis, and invaren, but those forms are encountered mainly in older texts or stylized language. In contemporary usage, speakers generally rely on the present subjunctive (invites) or imperfect subjunctive (invitaras) to express similar ideas.

Usage and register: invitares appears predominantly in classical literature, historical documents, or formal/legal language. It may be found in stylistic emulation of archaic Spanish or in certain regional dialects that preserve older grammatical forms. In modern standard Spanish, the future subjunctive is largely avoided in favor of the present or imperfect subjunctive, or occasional conditional constructions.

Examples: using the form in a literary context, one might encounter a sentence like “Si tú invitares a tus amigos, el evento podría salir mejor.” In everyday Spanish, a contemporary speaker would likely rephrase with a present subjunctive or a conditional construction.

See also: Spanish grammar, subjunctive mood, future subjunctive, invitar.