El Condicional (Spanish Conditional Tense)

Nosotros, pagar

• pagaríamos

• Pagarían

• pagíamos

• pagarémos

Las muchachas, volar

• volaría

• volarías

• volarían

• volían

Yo, hablar

• hablaría

• hablarías

• hablaré

• hablía

Ellas, vivir

• viviría

• vivirían

• vivían

• vivirán

He would run.

• comería

• correría

• jugaría

• corría

They would live.

• viviría

• vivirían

• viviríamos

• vivirán

Ana and I would play

• jugíamos

• jugaron

• jugarían

• jugaríamos

She would sing.

• Ella cantaría.

• Ella canta.

• Ella cantará.

• Ella cantía.

The conditional tense tells...

• what one *would* do under the right circumstances

• what one *will* do some day

• what one may or may not be doing at any given moment

• what one did yesterday

Some of the imperfect tense uses the same endings as the conditional. How do we tell the difference?

• The imperfect tense keeps the infinitive and the conditional does not. This makes two different conjugations.

• The conditional tense keeps the infinitive and the imperfect does not. This makes two different conjugations.

• They are conjugated the same and you use the context of the sentence to tell the difference.

• They don't have the same endings. This statement is false.