The conditional tense allows you to express imaginative ideas about what might, would, could and should happen in the future. It's a great way to describe your wildest dreams and fantasies.
The conditional tense is used to say what might happen under certain conditions.
It is called the conditional tense because it is dependent on a certain condition, eg you can only fulfil one thing on the condition that another thing happens.
How to form the conditional tense
The conditional tense is formed with the stemThe part of the verb that is left once the infinitive ending has been taken off. It can also be called a 'radical'.飞眉谤诲别-, which comes from the verb werden. This is then used together with the main verb in the infinitiveThe part of the verb found in the dictionary. It is the basic form of a verb without a subject, and the equivalent of English 'to...' verbs, and usually ends in -en, -n, -ern, -eln in German, eg spielen - to play., which is placed at the end of the sentence or main clausePart of a sentence, or a phrase that works on its own, that contains a subject, verb and sometimes other components..
The good news is that it looks a lot like the future tense.
Use
German
English
Future
A fact that will definitely happen
ich werde ein Auto kaufen
I will buy a car
Conditional
A fact that might happen
ich 飞眉谤诲别 ein Auto kaufen
I would buy a car
Future
Use
A fact that will definitely happen
German
ich werde ein Auto kaufen
English
I will buy a car
Conditional
Use
A fact that might happen
German
ich 飞眉谤诲别 ein Auto kaufen
English
I would buy a car
Like all German verbs, the ending of 飞眉谤诲别- changes depending on the subjectThe person or thing doing the action described by the verb. of the verb. Here are the forms needed for the conditional tense: