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Conditional
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Like the future tense, the conditional is formed by adding endings (-ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían) to the entire infinitive. Do not confuse the conditional forms of -er and -ir verbs with the imperfect. The endings for the latter are added to the stem, not to the infinitive. HABLAR hablaría, hablarías, hablaría, hablaríamos, hablaríais, hablarían COMER comería, comerías, comería, comeríamos, comeríais, comerían VIVIR viviría, vivirías, viviría, viviríamos, viviríais, vivirían The conditional is used to talk about things that would happen under certain circumstances (Un permanente le quedaría bien [A permanent would look good on you), or to make polite requests (Me gustaría [pedir] el pescado [I would like (to order) the fish]). |
Examples of Conditional
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