Conditional Tense

Formation

There is only one set of conjugations for regular verbs in the conditional tense.

This tense is formed by adding the endings to the infinitive of the verb.

Here are the endings for all regular verbs.

	singular	plural
first person	ía	íamos
second person	ías	íais
third person	ía	ían

yo hablaría
tú hablarías
él/ella/usted hablaría
nosotros hablaríamos
vosotros hablaríais
ellos/ellas/ustedes hablarían

Usage

There are two main uses of the conditional tense:

First, indicating what would happen if a certain condition were true (in conjugation with the future tense), as well as making requests more polite (when asking a question). Remember the key word “would” when you are thinking of the conditional.