Questions & Answers about Si jo sabés la resposta, no copiaria del teu quadern.
It is a hypothetical conditional sentence.
The pattern is:
- Si + imperfect subjunctive = the condition
- conditional = the result
So:
- Si jo sabés la resposta = if I knew the answer
- no copiaria del teu quadern = I would not copy from your notebook
This is used for an unreal or unlikely situation in the present.
Because sabés is the imperfect subjunctive of saber.
Here, the speaker is not saying they actually know the answer. They are imagining a situation:
- sé = I know
- sabia = I knew / I used to know
- sabés = if I knew
After si in this kind of hypothetical sentence, Catalan uses the imperfect subjunctive:
- Si jo sabés la resposta...
- Si tingués temps...
- Si fos ric...
So sabés is the correct form for this unreal condition.