Welcome to Vol. 46 of the Spanish Online Newsletter! Your weekly Spanish learning with mp3 files, as well as links to Spanish travel places and more. While I took an extended Spring Break from writing these letters, I'm hoping to get back into the routine again - sorry about the long wait for this newsletter. This week we complete the lesson from the last newsletter, which taught you to discuss what would happen if a certain condition existed. For example, "if I were a bird, I would fly." Last week we looked atht the "if this" portion, or the imperfect subjunctive. another intermediate grammar concept: the imperfect subjunctive. Now let's examine the easier portion, the "would" part - which is called the conditional.

Would...The Conditional

This tense works hand in hand with the imperfect subjunctive from last week in order to create situations that can be characterized by “if this, then that.” For example, "if I were from Mexico, I would speak Spanish." Now we look at this conditional —the “then that ” part.

For regular verbs, the future root is the same as the infinitive (i.e. hablar, tomar, vivir, etc). But as you can see below, for conditional or the “WOULD ”form, you use exactly the same root as the future, then add the conditional ending you find in the box below.

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Worksheet: Spanish Conditional Verbs

Quiz: Conditional

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