llegara

Llegara is a Spanish verb form derived from llegar, meaning to arrive. It is primarily the imperfect subjunctive form (also called the past subjunctive) used in subordinate clauses to express hypothetical, uncertain, or nonreal past contexts. The form can be used for all persons: yo llegara, tú llegaras, él llegara, nosotros llegáramos, vosotros llegarais, ellos llegaran. There is a variant llegase, which uses the other common imperfect subjunctive endings (-se) but conveys the same mood.

The imperfect subjunctive forms arise in contexts such as conditional clauses, expressions of unreality, or indirect discourse after verbs of saying or thinking in the past. For example: Si llegara a tiempo, podríamos empezar. Dijo que llegara tarde. In modern speech, many speakers also use other tenses or moods in place of the imperfect subjunctive, but llegara remains standard in formal, literary, or carefully structured prose.

Comparison with other Madrid Spanish forms: llegara is different from llegó, the preterite indicative meaning “he arrived,” and from llegará, the future indicative meaning “he will arrive.” It is also distinct from llegaba, the imperfect indicative meaning “he was arriving” or “he used to arrive.” The distinction between these forms is important for tense, aspect, and mood in Spanish grammar.

See also: llegar, Spanish subjunctive moods, conditional clauses, indirect discourse.