Re: Ear-grating ingrates

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Joseph Fatula :
>
>
>> My Spanish is L2 (or thereabouts), but I've never actually studied
>> it, so I
>> don't know which forms are referred to by "conditional" and
>> "subjunctive" in
>> Spanish.  If I were to say something like "If I had a car...", I'd
>> probably
>> do "Si tendria un carro...".
>
>
> And you would be incorrect. "Tendría" is conditional. "If I had a
> car..." would require the subjunctive imperfect, i.e. "tuviera".

No, he wouldn't be incorrect.  He would just be using a form that I'm
sure many native speakers use.