ABSTRACT

This chapter deals with conditions and conditional sentences, normally expressed in Portuguese with the word se ‘if’. In the following sections, you will learn to express basic conditions such as ‘If I have the money, I’ll go with you’, ‘If I had the money, I’d go with you’, ‘If I had had the money, I would have gone with you’. You will also learn the Portuguese equivalent of other conditional forms, such as ‘provided (that)’, ‘as long as’, ‘on condition (that)’.