The Subjunctive Mood of Barrer is used to express wishes, desires, or situations of uncertainty or subjectivity, for example: Es importante que yo barra la casa todos los días. (It’s important that I sweep the house every day.)

Barrer is a regular -er verb, so its conjugations in the Present Subjunctive follow the regular pattern for this verb type.

Conjugations

Conjugations of Barrer (to sweep) in the Subjunctive Mood tense (Latin American Spanish):

The present subjunctive of barrer is used to express wishes, desires, demands, or uncertainty about an action of sweeping or cleaning.

Wish or desire: For example, Ojalá que barras la casa antes de que lleguen los invitados. (I wish you would sweep the house before the guests arrive.)

Demand or request: For example, Es necesario que barras tu habitación. (It’s necessary that you sweep your room.)

Uncertainty: For example, No creo que barran la calle hoy. (I don’t think they will sweep the street today.)

Colloquial usage: In some Latin American countries, barrer can be used idiomatically to mean “to defeat someone decisively,” as in Los barrieron en las elecciones. (They swept them in the elections.)

Examples

Examples of Barrer in the Subjunctive Mood

Espero que barramos la casa antes de que lleguen los invitados. (I hope we sweep the house before the guests arrive.)

Aunque barras todos los días, la casa siempre se ensucia. (Even if you sweep every day, the house always gets dirty.)

Es importante que barra su área de trabajo al final del día. (It’s important that you sweep your work area at the end of the day.)

Ojalá que barramos el patio para quitarle las hojas caídas. (I wish we would sweep the patio to remove the fallen leaves.)

Aunque barran la calle todos los días, siempre hay basura. (Even though they sweep the street every day, there’s always trash.)

Mamá insiste en que barra mi cuarto cada semana. (Mom insists that I sweep my room every week.)

Es una lástima que no barramos el patio ayer, ahora está lleno de hojas. (It’s a shame we didn’t sweep the patio yesterday, now it’s full of leaves.)

Aunque barra constantemente, mi compañero de cuarto es muy desordenado. (Even though I sweep constantly, my roommate is very messy.)

Ojalá que barran las calles más seguido en esta ciudad. (I wish they would sweep the streets more often in this city.)

Mamá dice que barra la entrada para que no entre tierra a la casa. (Mom says to sweep the entrance so dirt doesn’t get into the house.)

Es importante que barras detrás de los muebles de vez en cuando. (It’s important that you sweep behind the furniture every once in a while.)

Ojalá que barran mejor las aceras, hay mucha basura. (I wish they would sweep the sidewalks better, there’s a lot of trash.)

Conjugations with English Translations

Conjugations of Barrer (to sweep) in the Subjunctive Mood tense (Latin American Spanish) with English Translations:

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Synonyms

The Subjunctive mood is also known as the Simple Subjunctive, Subjunctive Present, or Present Subjunctive Mood in English, and as Presente de Subjuntivo, Subjuntivo Presente, Presente del Modo Subjuntivo, or Tiempo Presente del Subjuntivo in Spanish.