-एको भए

Unreal Conditions

Level 4Sounds Like ēkō bha'ē

-एको भए starts an unreal condition.

How It Works

An unreal condition is an if that is not true, or was not true. Build it in two parts:

Example: पानी नपरेको भए हामी पोखरा जान्थ्यौँ (if it had not rained, we would have gone to Pokhara).

The result usually uses the habitual endings, but it does not tell a habit here. Use -ए भने for a real if: पानी परे भने म जाँदिनँ.

The result clause never takes the plain past. Write किन्थेँ, not किनेँ.

मसँग पैसा भएको भए म घर किन्थेँ।
If I had money, I would buy a house.
The result ends in किन्थेँ.
तिमीले पहिले भनेको भए म आउँथेँ।
If you had told me earlier, I would have come.
भनेको भए is the unreal if.
पानी नपरेको भए हामी पोखरा जान्थ्यौँ।
If it had not rained, we would have gone to Pokhara.
The negative न- joins the verb.
उहाँले सोध्नुभएको भए म सबै कुरा बताउँथेँ।
If he had asked, I would have told everything.
The respected doer takes सोध्नुभएको, and the two clauses have different doers.
बस नछुटेको भए म समयमै पुग्थेँ।
If I had not missed the bus, I would have arrived on time.
पुग्थेँ is the result.

A learner ends the result with the plain past.
मसँग पैसा भएको भए म घर किनेँ।
मसँग पैसा भएको भए म घर किन्थेँ।
The result clause needs the -थेँ form.

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-एको भएLevel 4Unreal Conditions

-एको भए is an unreal condition.

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