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conditional tense

conditional tense noun: the conditional mood.

Noun

conditional tense (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

Forms of conditional tense

pluralconditional tenses

Questions about conditional tense

What does conditional tense mean?
Conditional tense means the conditional mood.
What part of speech is conditional tense?
Conditional tense is a noun.
What is the plural of conditional tense?
The plural of conditional tense is conditional tenses.

Words near conditional tense in the dictionary

  1. conditional probability distributions
  2. conditional proof
  3. conditional proofs
  4. conditional sentence
  5. conditional sentences
  6. conditional tense
  7. conditional tenses
  8. conditional unconditional
  9. conditional unconditionals
  10. conditionalisation
  11. conditionalisations

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