Learn Spanish (Spain): Después de la tormenta, habría un rescate. - After the storm, there would be a rescue.

Después de la tormenta, habría un rescate.

After the storm, there would be a rescue.

Breakdown of Después de la tormenta, habría un rescate.

after (+ noun / infinitive)

el rescate

the rescue

Questions & Answers about Después de la tormenta, habría un rescate.

Why does the verb haber become habría here instead of following the normal conditional rules?

Haber has an irregular stem in the conditional tense. Instead of using the full infinitive before adding the ending, you drop the e to get the stem habr-, and then add the regular conditional ending -ía.

How does habría translate to "there would be" in this sentence?

Habría is the conditional form of the impersonal verb hay (there is/there are). Just like había means "there was" and habrá means "there will be", habría is used whenever you need to say "there would be".

Could habría also mean "I would have" or "he would have" in other sentences?

Yes! Haber is also the helper verb used to form perfect tenses (like "I would have eaten"). However, when used on its own to declare that something exists (meaning "there would be"), it only ever takes this third-person singular form, even if there would be multiple things.

Why is it después de and not just después?

Whenever "after" is followed directly by a noun or pronoun (like la tormenta), you must use después de. If you use después by itself, it functions as "afterwards" or "later", like in vamos después (we will go later).