conjugation.conditional.regular
Conditional: hablaría, comería, viviría
Infinitive + -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían for all verbs: hablaría, comerías, vivirían. Used for hypotheticals, polite requests, and the future-in-the-past.
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Explanation
Like the future, the conditional attaches one ending set to the full infinitive: hablar + ía = hablaría. The endings are the -er/-ir imperfect endings, but on the infinitive — hence comería (conditional) vs comía (imperfect).
Core uses: hypotheticals (yo no haría eso), politeness (¿podrías ayudarme?, me gustaría...), advice (deberías descansar), and reported future-in-the-past (dijo que vendría).
First and third singular coincide (yo hablaría / ella hablaría); context or pronoun clarifies. In conditional sentences, it pairs with the imperfect subjunctive: si tuviera tiempo, viajaría más.
Examples
I would like to book a table.
Region: global
Could you repeat that, please?
Region: global
She said she would arrive at nine.
Region: global