-fadh / -feadh

First-Conjugation Conditional

Level 4

Conditional forms include mholfadh sé and bhrisfeadh sí. They express hypothetical outcomes and suitable polite or future-in-the-past meanings; repeated past actions use a separate habitual-past paradigm.

How It Works

Conditional forms include mholfadh sé and bhrisfeadh sí. They express hypothetical outcomes and suitable polite or future-in-the-past meanings; repeated past actions use a separate habitual-past paradigm.

The conditional presents a hypothetical outcome, a suitable polite meaning or a future seen from a past reference point. It is distinct from the habitual past. The first-conjugation forms mholfadh and bhrisfeadh include both conditional endings and the relevant initial changes.

Examples (3)

  1. Mholfadh sí an obair.

    She would praise the work.

  2. Bhrisfeadh sé an cupán.

    He would break the cup.

  3. Léifinn an leabhar sin.

    I would read that book.

How It Connects

Tap a pattern to see what it builds on and what it leads to.

-fadh / -feadhLevel 4First-Conjugation Conditional

Learn This First

Contrast a first-conjugation future with its hypothetical conditional paradigm.

Learn Next

Patterns that build on this one.