Word
Se a menina não tivesse caído da bicicleta, o cotovelo não teria ardido tanto.
Meaning
If the girl had not fallen off the bicycle, her elbow would not have stung so much.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Breakdown of Se a menina não tivesse caído da bicicleta, o cotovelo não teria ardido tanto.
não
not
ter
to have
se
if
a bicicleta
the bicycle
Questions & Answers about Se a menina não tivesse caído da bicicleta, o cotovelo não teria ardido tanto.
What kind of sentence is Se a menina não tivesse caído da bicicleta, o cotovelo não teria ardido tanto?
It is a past unreal conditional sentence.
It talks about:
- something that did happen in the past: the girl fell off the bike
- and an imagined different result: her elbow would not have hurt so much
In English, this is like:
- If the girl hadn’t fallen off the bicycle, her elbow wouldn’t have hurt so much.
Portuguese usually builds this pattern with:
- se + pluperfect subjunctive
- conditional perfect in the result clause
So here:
- se ... tivesse caído
- não teria ardido
Why is it tivesse caído after se?