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
dacă
if / whether
ezita
to hesitate
emigra
to emigrate
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?
Because the second part of the sentence is in the present conditional. The present conditional is formed with the helping verb (ar) plus the short infinitive of the verb (emigra). The past participle is only used for past tenses, like ezitat in the first half of this sentence.
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