What is the difference between würde and wurde

I did not get the answer. I apologize for the lack of information in the previous response. I found this response to the same question on a different site, so I will include it here with a linked reference for credit to the author who appears to be writing a new German Grammar book :. So… every verb in German has its own form for it… every verb.

Here are some examples:. However, for the vast majority of verbs the real past form and the conditional form look alike… just as in English by the way:. That is a problem because it is unclear. So German has a second way to build the conditional 2 and that way uses the helper verb werden and puts that into conditional while it takes the original verb as an infinitive:. Even for the ones that have a unique form for conditional of their own:.

The decision which one is used depend on what the majority does and it is pretty much the same pattern as for the decision whether to use the spoken past or the written past. For helper verb, modals and the most common normal verb, that do have a unique form verbs like sehen, gehen, nehmen, kommen and so on people tend to use the real conditional. It just sounds weird.

But for many verbs both versions are being used. And now how does it work in past tense… again an example in English so we know what we are talking about:. Unlike some other language, German verbs have NO own form for that… thank god. So we have to use a helper verb to get the idea across.

And the helper just so happens to be the one you would use for the spoken past… haben or sein. So the system kind of parallels the system of past tense. There are 2 version which mean the same and it is only convention which is used in spoken.

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