conditional tense

noun

The conditional mood.

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Meanings

nounconditional tense (plural conditional tenses)

plural conditional tenses

  1. 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

Translations

French temps conditionnel
  • temps conditionnelconditional mood
Icelandic skildagatíð
  • skildagatíðconditional mood
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APA

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MLA

“conditional tense.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conditional%20tense. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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