Condicional: The Conditional Mood
The conditional mood expresses hypothetical situations, polite requests, and reported speech about future events. It is formed like the simple future but with different endings.
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European Portuguese Grammar Guide
Add conditional endings to the full infinitive (same stem as the future). The same three irregular stems apply: fazer → far-, dizer → dir-, trazer → trar-.
| Person | Ending | Falar | Poder |
|---|---|---|---|
| eu | -ia | falaria | poderia |
| tu | -ias | falarias | poderias |
| ele/ela/você | -ia | falaria | poderia |
| nós | -íamos | falaríamos | poderíamos |
| vós | -íeis | falaríeis | poderíeis |
| eles/elas/vocês | -iam | falariam | poderiam |
Poderia trazer mais pão, por favor?
Could you bring more bread, please?
Polite request.
Se tivesse dinheiro, compraria uma casa no Alentejo.
If I had money, I would buy a house in the Alentejo.
Hypothetical: imperfect conjunctive + conditional.
In colloquial EP, the conditional is frequently replaced by the imperfect (tinha instead of teria). Acceptable in speech; avoid in formal writing.
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Ela disse que viria à festa se não tivesse de trabalhar.
She said she would come to the party if she did not have to work.