Periodo Ipotetico
How to use "if" clauses and conditional sentences
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The periodo ipotetico is used to talk about things that would happen or would be true under certain conditions, for example, I would help you if I could.
A conditional sentence is made up by a main clause and by a subordinate clause introduced by the conjunction se (if in English).
Conditional sentences are traditionally divided into three types, they're actually four:
A conditional sentence is made up by a main clause and by a subordinate clause introduced by the conjunction se (if in English).
Conditional sentences are traditionally divided into three types, they're actually four:
Reality - probability : real hypothetis having a certain consequence
Possibility : possible hypothesis, something you are not expecting to happen or has a little chance of happening, but if it happened, it could have a certain consequence.
Impossibility : impossible hypothesis, something in the past that can't happen anymore, as well as its consequence.
Mixed : an hypothesis in the past that didn't occur, but that if it had occured, it would have a certain consequence in the present
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Periodo ipotetico
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Se mangi troppo...
Se il ministro fosse coerente...
Se Paola avesse studiato...
Se vedessi Luca...
Se continuerai così...
Se l'anno scorso non si fosse licenziato...
Se parlassi italiano...
Se fossi in te...
Se potessi, me ne...
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