conditional tense en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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The conditional mood.
But he is stopped short by vocabulary, by the conditional tense, by that way of speaking that shifts everything into the hypothetical, into an imagined existence that could or could not be true.
2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 341:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| conditional tenses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
is skildagatíð (conditional mood) · fr temps conditionnel (conditional mood)