A2Grammar
Wenn du ihn gefragt hättest, hätte er dir geholfen.
If you had asked him, he would have helped you.
In German
Wenn du ihn gefragt hättest, hätte er dir geholfen.
ven doo een ge-frat het-test, het-te er deer ge-hol-fen.
🇬🇧 English
If you had asked him, he would have helped you.
🇪🇸 Español
Si le hubieras preguntado, te habría ayudado.
🇮🇹 Italiano
Se glielo avessi chiesto, ti avrebbe aiutato.
Sentence Breakdown
| Word | Translation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Wenn | If | conjunction |
| du | you | pronoun |
| ihn | him | pronoun, accusative |
| gefragt | asked | participle II of fragen |
| hättest | had | auxiliary verb, Konjunktiv II of haben |
| hätte | would have | auxiliary verb, Konjunktiv II of haben |
| er | he | pronoun |
| dir | you | pronoun, dative |
| geholfen | helped | participle II of helfen |
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Grammar Point
Konjunktiv II der Vergangenheit (Unreal condition in the past).
Variations
Hättest du ihn gefragt, hätte er dir geholfen.
Had you asked him, he would have helped you.
Er hätte dir geholfen, wenn du ihn gefragt hättest.
He would have helped you if you had asked him.
Related
One should rather remain silent if one has nothing useful to say.
Man sollte lieber schweigen, wenn man nichts Nützliches zu sagen hat.
man zol-te lee-ber shvai-gen, ven man nisht nue-tsli-khes tsoo za-gen hat.
If it weren't so cold, we could sit outside.
Wäre es nicht so kalt, könnten wir draußen sitzen.
ve-re es nisht zo kalt, koen-ten veer drau-sen zit-tsen.
If I were you, I would take that job.
Wenn ich du wäre, würde ich den Job annehmen.
ven ish doo ve-re, vuer-de ish den yob an-ne-men.