I would come, or would come with pleasure in what you ask me, if I could. When, by virtue of the first rule, the first or second ending would have been used, and another verb of the same preterite is required to perfect the meaning, the latter must be used in the third ending: v. Quando begins with some conditional conjunction, such as: if, but, but is that, but is when, without, although, even when, provided that: it can be used of the first or third ending saying: if there were, or there would be good faith: if there were not, or there was no war: although there was, or there was peace. ![]() When any sentence of the imperfect subjunctive begins without a conditional conjunction, it can be used indistinctly from the first or second ending, saying: luckily, or it would rain: good, or it would be that they commanded it: I would do, or I would make them obey.
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