Breakdown of A venda começaria amanhã.
a
to / at (direction)
começar
to begin
amanhã
tomorrow
a venda
the sale
Questions & Answers about A venda começaria amanhã.
How do we form the conditional tense for começaria?
Começaria comes from the regular verb começar (to start). To form the conditional tense for regular verbs, you keep the whole infinitive word (começar) and add the conditional endings. Since a venda (the sale) acts as an "it" subject (third-person singular), we add the ending -ia. That gives us começar + ia = começaria (would start).
Why use the conditional (começaria) with a future word like amanhã (tomorrow) instead of the future tense?
The conditional is used here to show that this plan is hypothetical or uncertain. If you said A venda começará amanhã (future tense), it means "The sale will start tomorrow" as a solid fact. By saying começaria (would start), it strongly implies a "but" condition — for example, it would start tomorrow, but there was an unexpected delay.
Is venda just a conjugated form of the verb vender (to sell)?
It looks exactly like the he/she/it form of the present tense, but here it is a noun meaning "sale". You can tell because it has the definite article a (the) right in front of it. It is very common in Portuguese for a related noun to be spelled exactly like a present-tense verb conjugation!
Where is the spoken stress in the word começaria?
The stress is on the i: co-me-ça-RI-a. For all regular verbs in the conditional tense, the spoken emphasis always falls on the first vowel of the ending you just added (in this case, the i in the -ia ending).
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