“I would” in Spanish

I would like…, I would say…. Would you want…. Would you give? How do you form these sentences in Spanish. Real easy: the conditional tense!

The conditional tense (also known as the Potential simple) is used to describe actions that would happen. This is the same as in English when the word would is used (I would eat). The difference in Spanish is that the verb conjugation reflects this meaning directly, rather than adding an additional word. Overall, the usage of the conditional tense is very similar to English.

Conditional tense for regular Spanish verbs:

To form the conditional simple you change the ending of the stem of the Spanish verb. All regular verbs have the same ending:

Examples

To see if you got it right. Try to conjugate the following verbs into a I would sentence:

Questions:

1. ___________________ (compartir – ustedes)
2. ___________________ (comprar – yo)
3. ___________________ (comer – el)
4. ___________________ {vivir – ellos)
5. ___________________ (caminar – nosotros)
6. ___________________ (beber – yo}
7. ___________________ (abrir – tu)
8. ___________________ (tomar – ellos)
9. ___________________ (tocar – tu)

Answers:

1. Compartirían
2. Compraría
3. Comería
4. Vivirían
5. Caminaríamos
6. Bebería
7. Abrirías
8. Tomarían
9. Tocarías

That should go pretty easy using the conjugation chart above. That is because these are all regular verbs in Spanish. However, there are also a lot of irregular verbs some of which are extremely helpful to learn in the Condicional simple tense. Let’s try with these irregular verbs:

1. __________________ (estar – nosotros)
2. __________________ (quierer – yo)
3. __________________ (estar – el)
4. __________________ (poder – ellos)
5. __________________ (tener – yo)
6. __________________ (haber – ellos)
7. __________________ (venir – tu}
8. __________________ (decor – yo)
9. __________________ (hacer – nosotros)

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