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Lesson 41A – The conditional mood, present tense in French

  1. theory
    use
  2. exercises 🔥
  3. comments

Theory

a) how to form “ le conditionnel présent ”

group 1

ER verb

group 2

IR verb

group 3

RE verb

je/ j’

tu

il/elle/on

nous

vous

ils/elles

aimerais

aimerais

aimerait

aimerions

aimeriez

aimeraient

finirais

finirais

finirait

finirions

finiriez

finiraient

vendrais

vendrais

vendrait

vendrions

vendriez

vendraient

 

b) use

  1. courtesy form

Me donneriez-vous ce saphir Padparadscha ?

Would you give me this Padparadscha Sapphire ? 

  1. when estimating something or giving an opinion

Je dirais que cette pierre possède des qualités étranges

I would say that this stone has some strange qualities 

  1. when talking about a future event in the past

Ils ont dit que cette constellation de satellites serait une avancĂ©e spectaculaire pour accĂ©lĂ©rer le transfert d’informations des terriens

They said that this satellite constellation would be a dramatic step forward in speeding up the transfer of information from earthlings 

  1. IF/THEN sentences

Si j’achètais 15000 Solana aujourd’hui,  j’obtiendrais un retour sur investissement considérable d’ici 2044

If I bought 15,000 Solana today, I would get a substantial ROI by 2044 

/ ! \ WARNING / ! \
the verbs vouloir, pouvoir & devoir change their meaning in the conditional mood

je dois → I have to/I must // je devrais → I should

je veux → I want // je voudrais → I would like

je peux → I can // je pourrais → I could/I may/I might

Exercises

Results

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#1. on the whole, I'd consider the situation from different angles

#2. would you climb that wobbly ladder for me?

#3. this solution would be adopted by the council next year if we are to believe this half-horse, half-beetle robot

#4. if you were irish we'd drink our minds out

#5. I would estimate this mysterious object at several billion Swiss francs

Terminer

 

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