First of all, the Conditional is a Mood and not a Tense. Tenses tell when. Formation is quite simple.
a. Write your subject.
b. Write the Future Tense stem.
c. After the Future Tense stem, write the equivalent Imperfect stem.
For example. Je+parler+ais=Je parlerais.
To form the French conditional tense, you typically use the infinitive form of the verb and add the endings "-ais," "-ais," "-ait," "-ions," "-iez," "-aient" for regular verbs. For irregular verbs, you need to learn their specific conditional stem and add the same endings.
"Would be" is both a future tense and a conditional
The word "would" is an auxiliary verb used to indicate the conditional tense or to express a hypothetical situation. It is also used to form the past tense of will in reported speech.
If [I] wrote [this answer] then [...].
French does not work like this, I will explain.In English, we add "would" to any verb to create the conditional, i.e. would + eat = would eat, the conditional form of the verb "to eat". (The conditional tense concerns actions that you "would do", or, more precisely, actions that are to be performed provided certain criteria had existed at some previous moment).In French, the conditional is a single-word tense, i.e. conditional of manger = je mangerais, tu mangerais, il mangerait, nous mangerions, vous mangeriez, ils mangeraient. Notice that unlike the English, the conditional piece is simply a conjugation of the verb and not a separate word that can simply be "stuck in".In order to negate the conditional, the traditional ne...pas is used.A note on the Community Answer: "ne serait pas" is "it would not be" since "ser" is the root that comes from etre, the French verb meaning "to be". In any context not using the verb "to be", adding this would be incorrect to the point of not being understood.
The word "would" is predominantly used as a past tense form of "will" to indicate future-in-the-past events or hypothetical situations. It can also be used in conditional statements to express a future possibility or intention.
podría
Le mode conditionnel is a French equivalent of the incorrect English phrase "the conditional tense." The masculine singular definite article, noun, and adjective translate literally and properly into English as "the conditional mood," whose tense may be present or past. The pronunciation will be "luh muhd ko-dee-tsyo-nel" in French.
No, it is a helping verb, either the past tense or conditional form of "can."
Sorry, but there is no direct translation. :-( In English we make the conditional tense by using "would" with the primary verb -- I would be, we would like, etc.In French, the conditional tense is just a different way of conjugating the verb -- je serais, nous aimerions, etc.
D: Habrá Discussion: Habría is the conditional tense of haber. Hará is the future tense of hacer. Haría is the conditional tense of hacer. Habrá is the future tense of haber. All are conjugated in the el/ella/Ud. conjugation.
"Would be" is both a future tense and a conditional
Depends on context! Give a sentence to translate or look up a verb table of "pouvoir" - conditional tense.
The word "would" is an auxiliary verb used to indicate the conditional tense or to express a hypothetical situation. It is also used to form the past tense of will in reported speech.
No. Might is a helping verb that can be used with the verb to be. It is the past tense and conditional form of the compound verb "may be."
If [I] wrote [this answer] then [...].
French does not work like this, I will explain.In English, we add "would" to any verb to create the conditional, i.e. would + eat = would eat, the conditional form of the verb "to eat". (The conditional tense concerns actions that you "would do", or, more precisely, actions that are to be performed provided certain criteria had existed at some previous moment).In French, the conditional is a single-word tense, i.e. conditional of manger = je mangerais, tu mangerais, il mangerait, nous mangerions, vous mangeriez, ils mangeraient. Notice that unlike the English, the conditional piece is simply a conjugation of the verb and not a separate word that can simply be "stuck in".In order to negate the conditional, the traditional ne...pas is used.A note on the Community Answer: "ne serait pas" is "it would not be" since "ser" is the root that comes from etre, the French verb meaning "to be". In any context not using the verb "to be", adding this would be incorrect to the point of not being understood.
The verb in the given sentence, "could be" is in a conditional present tense.