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Tense of Quería and Queríamos

Alan-LaCala

Alan-LaCala

As I understand it these mean "I'd like" and We'd like" respectively. Yet on checking up in 501 verbs, this spelling with the single r is the imperfect tense, which I would have thought meant "I liked" and "We liked". Shouldn't "I'd like" and "We'd like" be the conditional tense? Or is this just another of these anomolies that one just has to accept? Alan
nohablo

nohablo

I think you may be confusing quería/queríamos (imperfect) with querría/querríamos (conditional). The _conditional_ (with a double r) means "I'd like" or "we'd like."
Alan-LaCala

Alan-LaCala

That's what I thought. A phrase book I was looking at had it with the single "r" and I thought it was wrong. Alan
nohablo

nohablo

Was this the same book that offered the confusing explanation with "de ti"? If so, tiralo a la basura :D

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