Conditionals
If this, then that — including the versions about things that did not happen.
B1
- The Spanish conditional: would, politeness, and guessing
One set of endings on the whole infinitive, twelve irregular stems shared with the future, and three jobs — hypotheticals, softened requests and speculation.
- Real conditionals in Spanish: si + present, and what follows
If it rains, we don't go. Si takes the present indicative — never the present subjunctive — and the other half can be a present, a future or a command.
B2
- Spanish unreal conditionals: if I had, I would have
Three kinds of if-sentence, one of which needs the subjunctive and two of which do not. The patterns, and the mistake even native speakers make.
- The three Spanish conditionals, side by side
Si tengo, si tuviera, si hubiera tenido — three if-sentences making three different claims, and the one rule that stops the commonest error.
C1
- Hubiera and hubiese: the pluperfect subjunctive
Hubiera hecho covers the past that never happened. In Peru it also quietly replaces habría, and stands alone to mean you should have.