It was also used as a conditional mood and in reported speech.

The optative may further be used instead of a conditional mood.

Thus a construction like the English would love will sometimes be described as representing the conditional mood.

The conditional mood is used to state hypothetical states, wishes, and desires.

As in many other languages, it is only the speculative type that causes the conditional mood to be used.

Conditional mood often refers to an inflected verb form, like the example just given.

(Some languages are also described in the article on the conditional mood.)

The former is also called the conditional mood or conditionality; the latter potentialis.

The conditional mood expresses an unrealistic action which the speaker considers to be supposed, possible or hopeful.

For certain other languages, see conditional mood.

The conditional mood is used to construct subordinate clauses with the meaning "if" or "when".

(The auxiliary would also has other uses, such as expressing conditional mood.)

The auxiliary verbs could and might can also be used to indicate the conditional mood, as in the following:

The other verb tenses behave the same way, as does the conditional mood:

The past subjunctive may be used with "if... then" statements with the conditional mood.

Copula is lacks a future tense, imperative mood and conditional mood.

The conditional mood corresponds mostly to "would" or "should" or to the past subjunctive in English.

French has inflectionally distinct imperative, subjunctive, indicative and conditional mood forms.

It generally involves using an additional marker of the future tense or the conditional mood in the main clause:

In older classifications, the conditional tenses were considered part of an independent conditional mood.

Spanish morphologically distinguishes the indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and conditional moods.

Subjunctive and conditional moods are used to form the hypothetical sentences and to express desire.

The conditional mood expresses the idea that the action or state expressed by the verb may or may not actually happen.

The '-ra-' forms may also be used as an alternative to the conditional mood in certain structures.

If also the main action is conditional (a typical usage), than it can be expressed with a verb of conditional mood.