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conditional tenses

conditional tenses is the plural of conditional tense.

Meaning of conditional tense

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

Questions about conditional tenses

What is conditional tenses the plural of?
Conditional tenses is the plural of conditional tense.

Words near conditional tenses in the dictionary

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

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