Language Bites, Volume I: Spa...

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Introduction, Resources, and How To Learn Spanish
Basic Rules of Spanish
Spanish Alphabet and Pronunciations
Memorization Assignment: Phrases
Punctuation and Capitalization
Subject Pronouns and Present Indicative
Possessives 101
Irregular Verbs
A Note on Negatives
Interrogatives
Adjectives
Adverbs
Demonstrative Determiners
Conjunctions
Time
Ser vs. Estar
Prepositions
Por vs. Para
Object Pronouns
Past Preterite
Verbs (Infinitive)
Phrasal Future (Ir)
Pronouns
Simple Future
Past Participles
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Future Perfect
Present Participles
Past Imperfect
Subjunctive Ideas
The Imperative Mood
Hay un capitulo nuevo (Okay, It's Actually Haber)
Se
Subjunctive Past
Subjunctive Present Perfect
Subjunctive Past Perfect
Deber
Deber/Haber
Comma Rules
¡Pregúntame!

Conditional/Conditional Perfect

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These tenses are extremely easy, so I'm going to condense this into one chapter. This is to allow us to hit Subjunctive past and the two perfect tenses to it sooner. 

Conditional:

Conditional is the tense that describes what "could" happen. It's easy to mix it up with the Subjunctive - I never did, but others do because the ideas are fairly similar - but conditional is an indicative tense, meaning a good way to think about it is that something "definitely could/could not". It's a lot easier than Subjunctive because we have this tense in English and use it all the time. For example:

Yo comería mañana. |I could eat tomorrow.

Me gustaría comer contigo. |I would like to eat with you.

To make a conditional stem, you use the verbal infinitive + the ending, just like in simple future. Here are the endings:

Yo: -ía

Tú: -ías

Él, ella, ud.: -ía

Nosotros: -íamos

Vosotros: -íais

Ellos/ellas, uds.: -ían

Conditional Perfect

Conditional Perfect is often viewed as the past tense of conditional, since haber operates as an auxiliary verb here. Conditional Perfect in English is the tense that states that someone "could have" done something, but didn't for some reason. The conjugation of haber is the conditional, which translates to "could have" in English, and it is followed by the past participle, as is customary for perfect tenses. Conditional perfect examples will be given after the conjugations, but let's see them below:

Yo: Habría

Tú: Habrías

Él, ella, ud: Habría

Nosotros: Habríamos

Vosotros: Habríais

Ellos/ellas, uds: Habrían

Examples:

Habría comido hoy, pero estuve trabajando. |I could have eaten today, but I was working.

Habrías hablado, si había venido. |You could have spoken, if you had come.

Me habría gustado de comer contigo. |I would have liked to eat with you.

Habríamos sido amigos. |We could have been friends. 

Habrían bailan juntos, pero estaban tímidos. |They could have danced together, but they were shy.


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