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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.

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