Word
Para la supervivencia, usted siempre tendría agua.
Meaning
For survival, you would always have water.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Para la supervivencia, usted siempre tendría agua.
para
for / in order to (+ infinitive) / by (a deadline)
siempre
always
el agua
the water (f)
tener
to have
Questions & Answers about Para la supervivencia, usted siempre tendría agua.
Why is the conditional verb tendría instead of "tenería"?
Tendría comes from the verb tener (to have). Tener has an irregular stem in the conditional tense. Instead of adding the ending to the full infinitive, you use the special stem tendr- and add the ending -ía.
Why do we need the pronoun usted in this sentence? Can't we just drop it?
You can drop it if the context is obvious, but including usted avoids confusion. In the conditional tense, the yo (I) and él/ella/usted (he/she/formal you) forms share the exact same ending. Adding usted makes it instantly clear that we mean "you would have" rather than "I would have".
Why does the sentence begin with Para instead of Por?
Is it okay to put siempre after the verb instead?
Yes, you could say usted tendría siempre agua, but placing time adverbs like siempre (always) immediately before the verb is the most natural and common word order in Spanish.