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French Conditional Perfect

How to conjugate the conditional perfect

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The French conditional perfect, or past conditional, is a compound conjugation, which means it has two parts:
  1. conditional of the auxiliary verb (either avoir or être)
     
  2. past participle of the main verb

Note: Like all French compound conjugations, the conditional perfect may be subject to grammatical agreement:
  • When the auxiliary verb is être, the past participle must agree with the subject
     
  • When the auxiliary verb is avoir, the past participle may have to agree with its direct object


French conditional perfect conjugations
  
AIMER (auxiliary verb is avoir)
j'aurais aimé nousaurions aimé
tuaurais aimévousauriez aimé
il,
elle 
aurait aiméils,
elles 
auraient aimé
  
DEVENIR (être verb)
jeserais devenu(e) nousserions devenu(e)s
tuserais devenu(e)vousseriez devenu(e)(s)
ilserait devenuilsseraient devenus
elle serait devenueellesseraient devenues
  
SE LAVER (pronominal verb)
jeme serais lavé(e) nousnous serions lavé(e)s
tute serais lavé(e)vousvous seriez lavé(e)(s)
ilse serait lavéilsse seraient lavés
elle se serait lavéeellesse seraient lavées

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