Word
Si j'avais choisi une autre profession, mon salaire actuel serait meilleur.
Meaning
If I had chosen another profession, my current salary would be better.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Si j'avais choisi une autre profession, mon salaire actuel serait meilleur.
je
I
être
to be
une
a / an (feminine)
avoir
to have
Questions & Answers about Si j'avais choisi une autre profession, mon salaire actuel serait meilleur.
Why do we use the plus-que-parfait (avais choisi) in the first half but the present conditional (serait) in the second half?
This is a mixed conditional. It expresses a past condition that didn't happen ('If I had chosen...') leading to a result that affects the present ('...my salary would be better right now'). If the result were also in the past, you would use the past conditional instead: mon salaire aurait été meilleur (my salary would have been better).
Does actuel mean 'actual' here?
No, actuel is a classic false friend! It means 'current' or 'present'. So mon salaire actuel means 'my current salary'. If you wanted to say 'my actual salary' (as in 'true' or 'real'), you would use a word like réel or véritable.
Why use meilleur instead of mieux for 'better'?
Why does autre come before the noun (une autre profession) when most French adjectives come after?