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(language education, grammar) A structure used to talk about unreal or unfulfilled events in the past, containing an if clause (with a verb in the past perfect) and a main clause (with would + the bare perfect infinitive of a verb).

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third conditional

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third conditional

Noun

(language education, grammar) A structure used to talk about unreal or unfulfilled events in the past, containing an "if" clause (with a verb in the past perfect) and a main clause (with would + the bare perfect infinitive of a verb).

Japanese Meaning

第三条件文：過去に実際には起こらなかった事柄について、もし〜であったならという仮定のもと、その結果を表現する文型。 / 仮定法過去完了を含む構文で、過去の非現実的な条件とその結果を伝えるために使用される表現形式。