📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 13 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 3 · El condicional — would, could, should
Si pudiera… — the wish, met
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 13 of 30: The condicional loves a si-clause: si tuviera tiempo, me quedaría aquí, if I had time. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
si pudiera
if I could
see poo-DYEH-rah
si tuviera tiempo
if I had time
see too-BYEH-rah TYEHM-poh
si fuera rico
if I were rich
see FWEH-rah RREE-koh
aquí me quedaría
I would stay here
ah-KEE meh keh-dah-REE-ah
me encantaría visitar Roma
I would love to visit Rome
meh ehn-kahn-tah-REE-ah bee-see-TAR RROH-mah
visitar
to visit
bee-see-TAR
quedarse
to stay
keh-DAR-seh
imaginar
to imagine
ee-mah-hee-NAR
posible
possible
poh-SEE-bleh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
The condicional loves a si-clause: si tuviera tiempo, me quedaría aquí — if I had time, I would stay here. Tuviera, pudiera, fuera are the imperfecto de subjuntivo, and Module 3 of this band builds that form properly. Here you meet it in three phrases.
Y también · And also
Si pudiera (if I could), si tuviera (if I had), si fuera (if I were): learn them whole, then attach any conditional. Si fuera rico, viajaría. Si pudiera, aquí me quedaría. Watch what the si half is NOT: it is not about the past. Si tuviera means if I HAD, now.
Ojo · Watch out
si + pudiera / tuviera / fuera is a wish about NOW, not the past: si tuviera tiempo means if I had time today. And the condicional stays OUT of the si half: never si tendría tiempo.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with si pudiera.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 13 in Module 6 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.