<P> The conditional mood (abbreviated cond) is a grammatical mood used to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some condition, possibly counterfactual . It thus refers to a distinct verb form that expresses a hypothetical state of affairs, or an uncertain event, that is contingent on another set of circumstances . An example of a verb in the conditional mood is the French aimerait, meaning "would love" (from the verb aimer, "to love"). </P> <P> Conditional mood often refers to an inflected verb form, like the example just given . However the term is also sometimes used in relation to an analytic construction that performs the same function . Thus a construction like the English would love will sometimes be described as representing the conditional mood . In some informal contexts, such as language teaching, it may be called the "conditional tense". </P>

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