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Conditional sentences (“Would”) Spanish has its own tense for expressing the concept of “would” as in “I would go.” This tense, called the conditional, is formed in the same way the true future tense is formed–by adding a new set of endings on to the infinitive. Coincidentally, the endings are the same as the imperfect endings for ‐er/‐ir verbs, as seen in the following chart: Conditional endings (‐ar / ‐er / ‐ir verbs) Sample conjugation: comer ía íamos comería comeríamos ías íais comerías comeríais ía ían comería comerían Using the conditional form simply adds the concept of “would” to the action, as in : yo* comería. (I would eat). nosotros iríamos. (we would go) lo comprarías. (you would buy it.) Me gustaría comprar el traje. (I would like to buy the suit.) *Note that “yo” is usually used with this tense, to distinguish from the él/ella form The following 12 verbs are irregular in the conditional tense. The only irregularity is that a new stem is used in place of the infinitive, as with regular verbs. Regular endings are then added to the new stem. Please note that these irregular verbs are exactly the same as the irregular future verbs. Group #1: Drop an “e” caber: cabr‐ haber: habr‐ poder: podr‐ querer: querr‐ saber: sabr‐ Sample conjugation: tener Group #2: Replace “e/I” with “d” poner: pondr‐ salir: saldr‐ tener: tendr‐ valer: valdr‐ venir: vendr‐ Sample conjugation: decir tendría tendríamos diría diríamos tendrías tendríais dirías diríais tendría tendrían diría dirían Group #3: Drop 2 letters decir: dir‐ hacer: har– As with other perfect tenses, the conditional perfect tense (I would have danced) is formed by using the verb “haber”, conjugated in the conditional form, and the past participle (‐ado/‐ido). habría habrías habría habríamos habríais + habrían ‐ado ‐ido Yo habría bailado Tú habrías bailado Ella habría bailado Nosotros habríamos bailado Vosotros habríais bailado Ellos habrían bailado To practice this concept, please visit: http://www.conjuguemos.com (exercise #13) http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/conditional.htm http://www.spaleon.com/cond.php http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/conditional.html This Pattern Mastery Guide is copyrighted © 2006 by Richard Tate and the Spanish Language Learning Center, http://www.tatespanish.com. It may be downloaded and used for personal use only and may not be sold, used for commercial use or posted on the web without the written permission of the author.