“Let’s see,” you may say to yourself about three-quarters through the typical first-year Spanish course, “how many verb tenses have we studied? 1. Present Indicative; 2. Imperfect Indicative; 3.

AT Language Log Mark Liberman notes that Nicolas Sarkozy has made headlines for, of all things, using the formal and quite rare imperfect subjunctive in a televised interview. "J'aurais aimé qu'il ...