Modern Hebrew Verb Conjugation - Conditional

Conditional

Modern Hebrew has an analytic conditional~past-habitual mood expressed with the auxiliary /haˈja/:

"לו היה לי זמן, הייתי הולך."

lu haˈja ˈli ˈzman, haˈjiti hoˈleχ.
if was me time, I-was go.
If I had the time, I would go.

"לו מישהו היה טורח לספר לי, הייתי יודע."

lu ˈmiʃehu haˈja toˈʁeaħ lesaˈpeʁ ˈli, haˈjiti joˈdeaʕ.
if someone was bother to-tell me, I-was know.
If someone had bothered to tell me, I'd have known.

"פעם הייתי הולך המון לקולנוע."

ˈpaʕam haˈjiti hoˈleχ haˈmon lakolˈnoaʕ.
once I-was go a-lot to-the-cinema.
I used to go a lot to the cinema.

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