Word
Gdybym wzięła portmonetkę, kupiłabym tę bransoletkę na przecenie.
Meaning
If I had taken my coin purse, I would have bought that bracelet on sale.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Gdybym wzięła portmonetkę, kupiłabym tę bransoletkę na przecenie.
ja
I
na
on
kupić
to buy
gdyby
if
Questions & Answers about Gdybym wzięła portmonetkę, kupiłabym tę bransoletkę na przecenie.
What does gdybym mean, and how is it built?
Gdybym means if I in a hypothetical or unreal condition.
It is built from:
- gdyby = if
- -m = a short ending meaning I
So:
- gdybym = if I
- gdybyś = if you
- gdybyśmy = if we
In this sentence, gdybym wzięła portmonetkę means if I had taken/brought the purse.
Why are the verb forms wzięła and kupiłabym feminine?
Because the speaker is female.
In Polish, past-tense-type forms and conditional forms show the gender of the speaker in the singular:
- wzięła = a woman said took
- wziął = a man said took
- kupiłabym = I would buy / I would have bought said by a woman
- kupiłbym = the same, said by a man
So if a man were speaking, the sentence would be:
Gdybym wziął portmonetkę, kupiłbym tę bransoletkę na przecenie.
How is the conditional formed in kupiłabym?