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Re: Ear-grating ingrates (was: Re: The phrase 'I'd like...')

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, January 19, 2004, 20:41
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". Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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