It is one of the most common ways to express wishes in Spanish. The simple conditional is usually combined with the pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo (imperfect subjunctive).

You may want to refresh your knowledge of the Spanish conditional and keep your conjugation charts handy for this lesson. Remember that to conjugate regular - ar, - er and - ir verbs in the conditional, you add the endings - ía, - ías, - ía, - íamos, - íais, - ían to the infinitive form of the verb. The most common one is the simple conditional. The Spanish subjunctive can be used with both forms of the conditional. Don't forget all our examples use bold to highlight the subjunctive and underlining for the other moods. Let's now study how to combine subjunctive with conditional. We invite you to read our lessons on Subjunctive and Indicative and Subjunctive and Imperative. Our site is featuring new social media widgets, so feel free to share the lessons with all your friends! BANNER PLACEHOLDER The conditional perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive are precisely the tenses needed to express what you would have done under certain circumstances.This is our third lesson in the series on the Spanish subjunctive.

If your Spanish teacher were to ask you, “Which foreign language would you have studied if you hadn't taken Spanish?” how would you respond? If you wanted to impress your teacher, you would raise your hand and say Habría estudiado portugués si no hubiera tomado español 'I would have studied Portuguese if I hadn't taken Spanish,' for example. What's the reason for using one strategy or another?Ĭonditional perfect and pluperfect subjunctive (contrary-to-fact statements).Using L1 to keep forms and functions straight.

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