Mini Spanish lesson: El Condicional a2-b2 & El Tiempo Condicional Perfecto con el Pluscuamperfecto del Subjuntivo b3-c2
Spanish lesson: Conditional Tense (A2)
We will take a look at the conditional tense in Spanish.
The conditional tense is used to describe what someone would do or what would happen in the future.
It can also be used to express ambitions and intentions.
For example:
Yo compraría los boletos de avión lo antes posible.
(I would buy the plane tickets as soon as possible.)
El viernes sería un buen día para ir a la playa.
(Friday would be a good day to go to the beach.)
The three kinds of verbs; -ar, -er, -ir; have the same conjugation in the conditional.
The conjugation is simply attached to the infinitive, the non-conjugated form of the verb.
Let’s look at an example with the verb beber (to drink):
Yo bebería (I would drink)
Tú beberías (you would drink)
Ella, él, usted bebería (etc…)
Nosotr@s beberíamos
Ellas, ellos, ustedes beberían
Lección de Español: Tiempo Condicional (A3-B2)
We will take a look at the conditional tense in Spanish.
The conditional tense is used to describe what someone would do or what would happen in the future.
It can also be used to express ambitions and intentions.
For example:
Yo compraría los boletos de avión lo antes posible.
(I would buy the plane tickets as soon as possible.)
El viernes sería un buen día para ir a la playa.
(Friday would be a good day to go to the beach.)
The three kinds of verbs; -ar, -er, -ir; have the same conjugation in the conditional.
The conjugation is simply attached to the infinitive, the non-conjugated form of the verb.
Let’s look at an example with the verb beber (to drink):
Yo bebería (I would drink)
Tú beberías (you would drink)
Ella, él, usted bebería (etc…)
Nosotr@s beberíamos
Ellas, ellos, ustedes beberían
Lección de Español: Tiempo Condicional Perfecto con el Pluscuamperfecto del Subjuntivo (B3-C2)
We are going to cover the conditional perfect tense in Spanish and its use with the past perfect subjunctive.
The past perfect subjunctive is used when we express past hypotheticals, conditionals, and past actions that take place before other past actions.
The conditional perfect is used to express possibility in the past, actions that could or would have taken place as a consequence of the previously mentioned hypothetical past.
For example:
Si hubiera estudiado más, habría aprobado el examen.
(If I had studied more, I would have passed the exam.)
Si hubieras podido, ¿habrías vivido tu vida de otra manera?
(If you had been able to, would you have lived your life in another way?)
*The order of the clauses can be exchanged without any alteration in meaning.
For example:
Habría aprobado el examen si hubiera estudiado más.
(I would have passed the exam If I had studied more.)
The past perfect subjunctive is conjugated with the verb haber in the imperfect subjunctive plus the main verb.
The ending of the verbs -ar is replaced with -ado and the ending of the verbs -er, -ir is replaced with -ido.
Let’s look at an example with the verb beber:
Yo hubiera/hubiese bebido
Tú hubieras/hubieses bebido
Ella, él, usted hubiera/hubiese bebido
Nosotr@s hubiéramos/hubiésemos bebido
Ellas, ellos, ustedes hubieran/hubiesen bebido
The conditional perfect is conjugated with the verb haber in the conditional plus the main verb.
The ending of the verbs -ar is replaced with -ado and the ending of the verbs -er, -ir is replaced with -ido.
Let’s look at an example with the verb beber:
Yo habría bebido
Tú habrías bebido
Ella, él, usted habría bebido
Nosotr@s habríamos bebido
Ellas, ellos, ustedes habrían bebido
Note: The use of the imperfect subjunctive form of haber (hubiera) in the conditional perfect is widespread and accepted.
For example:
Yo hubiera bebido.
