Word
Dacă ea nu ar fi ezitat, ar emigra astăzi.
Meaning
If she hadn't hesitated, she would emigrate today.
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Breakdown of Dacă ea nu ar fi ezitat, ar emigra astăzi.
fi
to be (sunt, ești, este, suntem, sunteți, sunt)
nu
no / not
ea
she
astăzi
today
Questions & Answers about Dacă ea nu ar fi ezitat, ar emigra astăzi.
Why does the Romanian sentence use ar fi ezitat in the dacă clause when English uses the past perfect tense "hadn't hesitated"?
In English, unreal past conditions use the past perfect tense after "if". Romanian is different: it uses the Past Conditional directly after dacă. Literally, the Romanian structure translates to "If she would not have hesitated".
How exactly is the past conditional nu ar fi ezitat built in this sentence?
It combines the negative nu, the conditional helping verb for "she" (ar), the unchanging word fi (to be), and the past participle of the verb (ezitat). You will always use this exact helping structure (ar fi + past participle) for "he" or "she" in the past conditional.
Why do we switch from ar fi ezitat in the first half to ar emigra in the second half?
This sentence describes a mixed condition. The first half is an action that didn't happen in the past, so it needs the past conditional (ar fi ezitat). The second half describes the imaginary result of that action happening right now (astăzi), which requires the present conditional (ar emigra).
Why does the second part use emigra instead of the past participle emigrat?