# Posted: 30 Mar 2008 13:18 KST
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conditional tense
The conditional tense is really If sentences. Korean has no difference between factual conditional (All men are tall. He is a man. If he is a man, he will be tall) and conditional conditional (If you had gone, you would have made it there on time) or (If you go, you'd make it). I shall limit this discussion just to the conditional conditional.
Are you familiar with the 었 past tense? In Korean this also doubles as a hypothetical indicator. So, it is the conditional tense as well as the past tense.
I can't believe that that's actually true, I must be capable of time travel. Shit. The best I can offer the poor reader is that this is true in only certain cases.
했으면
If you do is do으면, and the predicate is its own sentence.
This is the reason Koreans have a hard time with conditional sentences.
posting on korean ~ paperwindow.com forums and local copy
The local thread on "would have", "should have"
see the entry here which is ㄹ/을걸 그랬어요
Also see it would be better if which is past tense+면 하다
었(았, 였)으면 싶다: wouldn't it be better if ......
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