Kinds of Conditional
Conditional verb forms can also have non-conditional temporal uses, often for expressing "future in the past" tense.
Some languages distinguish more than one conditional mood. Hadza, for example, has a potential conditional expressing possibility, and a veridical conditional expressing certainty.
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