Will you pass this conditional test?

"If I had known, I wouldn't have come."

The line spoken by Petit Gibus from

is famous.

It arouses tenderness.

But it remains erroneous nonetheless.

In fact, the conditional is a verbal mood that is not easy to tame.

Used in a hypothetical system, which also makes it the time of the imaginary and of attenuation, as well as to evoke the future in relation to a moment in the past, it is very often confused with the imperfect.

Similarly, the conditional past second form is sometimes similar to the pluperfect subjunctive.

Example: the third person singular of the verb “falloir” in the pluperfect subjunctive and in the conditional past second form is

.

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"Remove the conditional and you will have destroyed God"

, said Boris Vian.

Also, let's not suffer the heartbreak that his disappearance would represent.

Ten years ago, a study estimated that 42% of 18-24 year olds had difficulty distinguishing the future tense and the conditional.

It was 34% for all French people.

Do you know how to conjugate the verb "to grumble" in the second past conditional?

Is the phrase

correct?

invites you to test your knowledge.