Transcript The Conditional Mood

The Conditional Mood
The Conditional- No Guarantees
• To express something that might happen, or
would happen, if something else were to
occur (if…then) you use the conditional mood
(in English, it’s just would + verb)
• Often used in a sentence with the word si= if
• In French, to create the conditional, you use
the future stem of the verb, and then add a
set of endings
What was the future stem?
• In –er, and –ir regular verbs, the “future stem”
just means the infinitive…like regarder or finir
• For –re regular verbs, the “future stem” just
means drop the final e…like vendr or attendr
• There are some verbs with irregular future
stems:
Aller= ir
faire= fer
vouloir=voudr
Être= ser
avoir= aur
And those endings…?
-Ais
-Ais
-Ait
-ions
-iez
- aient
You’ll being seeing these endings again in one kind of past tense
Examples
So… J’irais= I would go
Tu aimerais= You would like
Il regarderait= He would watch
Nous voudrions = We would want, We
would like
Vous seriez= you would be
Ils finiraient= They would finish
To make negative, put ne…pas around the verb