“Nunca hubieras pensado que hubiese tantas formas de disculparse.” Hola, this sentence is from the B2 Listening exercise on how to apologize in spanish. I don’t know why Nunca triggers the imperfect subjunctive. Maybe this example could be included in the examples in this lesson? Muchas gracias, Shirley.
Nunca hubieras
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Nunca hubieras
This question relates to:Spanish lesson "Conjugate haber in the Spanish imperfect subjunctive (El Imperfecto de Subjuntivo)"
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Hola Shirley
The reason why it's using "nunca hubieras pensado..." is because sometimes we use the form "hubiera/hubiese" as the perfect conditional, i.e. instead of "habría..." As this seems to come from a dictation you haven't seen the translation, but it is saying:
"You would never have thought / imagined that there were some many different ways to apologise."
It's not really the use of "nunca" that has triggered it.
I hope it clarified it.
Saludos
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Nunca hubieras
“Nunca hubieras pensado que hubiese tantas formas de disculparse.” Hola, this sentence is from the B2 Listening exercise on how to apologize in spanish. I don’t know why Nunca triggers the imperfect subjunctive. Maybe this example could be included in the examples in this lesson? Muchas gracias, Shirley.
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