Word
Fosse per me, ci si sveglierebbe più tardi in questo ritiro.
Meaning
If it were up to me, one would wake up later in this retreat.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Fosse per me, ci si sveglierebbe più tardi in questo ritiro.
essere
to be
questo
this (masculine)
in
in / made of (material)
tardi
late
Questions & Answers about Fosse per me, ci si sveglierebbe più tardi in questo ritiro.
Why isn't there a se (if) before fosse per me?
Fosse per me is a common fixed phrase meaning "if it were up to me." You absolutely can say se fosse per me, but Italians often drop the se in this specific idiom. It uses the imperfect subjunctive (fosse) because it describes a hypothetical, unreal scenario.
Why is it ci si sveglierebbe instead of just si sveglierebbe?
Since this lesson is about compound tenses, how would I say "one would have woken up" here?
You would say ci si sarebbe svegliati (or svegliate for an all-female group). In compound tenses with the impersonal si or ci si, the auxiliary verb is always essere in the third-person singular (here, sarebbe). However, the crucial rule is that the past participle must take a plural ending (-i or -e).
Why is sveglierebbe in the conditional mood?