No sé qué va/vaya a pasar

[ilias05]

Dear people

What do you think of the sentences below? Is the indicative/subjunctive correct here, or should the other form be used?

No sé qué vaya a pasar.
Nadie sabe lo que va a pasar.

Thanks in advance

 

[Agró]

Over here, only #2 (va).

 

[ilias05]

thanks, and the 1st?

 

[Agró]

Unheard of.
We don't use subjunctive after "No sé..."
No sé quién es.
No sé quién sea.

 

[TheCrociato91]

The reason being, if I'm not mistaken, that, although "No sé" does contain a negation (thus it should take a subjunctive), the dependent clause is treated as an indirect question, and thus it takes the indicative mood.

 

[fenixpollo]

This topic has been covered many, many times in our forum, although not with "va" or "vaya" as far as I can tell.

You can find those previous forum conversations by typing keywords into the search bar at the top of this page. For example:

subjunctive no sé or subjuntivo no sé

saber subjunctive or saber subjuntivo

Scroll to the bottom of each dictionary entry to find the prior threads.

 

[S.V.]

It is the same as this thread, as well. You can hear vaya in parts of LatAm.