In “en espérant que je ne me rende pas compte de son absence.”
We have “rendre” in the subjunctive as “rende”. This has been triggered by “espérer que”. But I thought that an affirmative use of “espérer que” would use the Indicative as opposed to the Subjunctive. I don’t know what additional implication the use of the gerund has though…
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/subjunctivisor/esperer/
Hi Brian,
Interesting question!
Here the indicative future would work depending on the degree of doubt -
Take a look at these discussions on the same topic -
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/en-esp%C3%A9rant-que-mode.964772/
https://www.question-orthographe.fr/question/en-esperant-que-indicatif-ou-subjonctif/
There are others ...
In “en espérant que je ne me rende pas compte de son absence.”
We have “rendre” in the subjunctive as “rende”. This has been triggered by “espérer que”. But I thought that an affirmative use of “espérer que” would use the Indicative as opposed to the Subjunctive. I don’t know what additional implication the use of the gerund has though…
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/subjunctivisor/esperer/
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