conditional

condizionale, subordinato

Possibile o valido solo se viene soddisfatto un requisito preciso.

In inglese semplice: Only possible or valid if a particular requirement is met.

• She received a conditional offer.
• Our approval is conditional on a safety inspection.
• The agreement remained conditional until both sides signed.

Come si usa: conditional on something (Payment is conditional on completing the work.)

Sinonimi: dependent, qualified

Contrari: unconditional

Espressioni comuni: conditional offer, conditional approval, conditional on something

condizionale

Che indica che un’affermazione vale se un’altra è vera.

In inglese semplice: Saying that one statement follows if another statement is true.

• This is a conditional statement.
• Conditional reasoning connects a possible situation with its result.
• The class tested whether the conditional proposition was true.

Espressioni comuni: conditional statement, conditional proposition, conditional reasoning

condizionale

Forma verbale usata per parlare di situazioni immaginate o che dipendono da qualcos’altro.

In inglese semplice: A verb form used to talk about imagined situations or things that depend on something else.

• Use the conditional in this sentence.
• The French conditional can express a polite request.
• We practiced forming the conditional with several verbs.

Espressioni comuni: the conditional, use the conditional, in the conditional

proposizione condizionale, implicazione

Affermazione secondo cui, se una cosa è vera, lo è anche un’altra.

In inglese semplice: A statement saying that if one thing is true, another thing is true too.

• The conditional has two parts.
• A conditional can have a false first part.
• Students checked the truth of each conditional.

Sinonimi: implication

Espressioni comuni: a conditional, material conditional, true conditional