Spanish sentence question
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 9:32 am
I'm looking for help understanding this sentence that came from an anki deck called "Sentences from the book Websters New World 575 Spanish Verbs." The deck gives a series of cards for each verb: the infinitive followed by several sentences that use that verb. There's no larger context for the sentences. I would never be able to produce these sentences in Spanish from the English prompt, I'm just using it to increase my passive vocabulary and sense of the range of meanings for common verbs.
Hubiésemos ganado la carrera si nos hubiéramos preparado mejor.
We would have won the race if we had prepared better.
I guess I have several questions. First, is this a correct and natural-sounding sentence?
Why isn't the conditional tense used here?
Aren't the forms 'hubiéramos' and 'hubiésemos' equivalent? I thought that the two forms were interchangeable, but maybe there is some shade of meaning or style communicated by using one or the other. But is there a reason for using both forms in the same sentence?
Thanks in advance for the enlightenment!
Hubiésemos ganado la carrera si nos hubiéramos preparado mejor.
We would have won the race if we had prepared better.
I guess I have several questions. First, is this a correct and natural-sounding sentence?
Why isn't the conditional tense used here?
Aren't the forms 'hubiéramos' and 'hubiésemos' equivalent? I thought that the two forms were interchangeable, but maybe there is some shade of meaning or style communicated by using one or the other. But is there a reason for using both forms in the same sentence?
Thanks in advance for the enlightenment!