Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

conditional tense

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables: con-di-tion-al tense
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The conditional mood.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

conditional tenses (plural)

Questions

What does conditional tense mean?: The conditional mood.

How to pronounce conditional tense

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