what is the actual meaning of "would" and "could"?
what is the actual meaning of "would" and "could"?
hii,
I am learning English for around 5 years and I still can't comprehend the meaning of "would" and "count" in some context. are they just past form of "will" and "can"?
"would you like coffee" means a person is asking if you liked coffee in past? "I would do it" means I did it in past?
I really don't understand since my language doesn't have anything like those words.
Edit: Thank you for answering my naive question :)
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I didn't really see people mentioning that "would" can still be used past-tense outside of "would have," though it's not in the same way - you use it when talking about something that happened multiple times in the past. For example, "When I was a kid my friends and I would go to the pool every Saturday," which means that, as children, my friends and I did visit the pool every Saturday.