Lombard/Hypothetical construction

The hypothetical construction: comparison between English and Lombard In Lombard, as in English there is the hypothetical period, the correspondence between the verb tenses used in Lombard and in English is shown in the table below. +Correspondence between the verbs used in the hypothetical construction in English and in LombardType in Englishin Lombard 0 verb used inthe if-clausePresent SimplePresent Indicativeverb used inthe main clausePresent SimplePresent Indicative 1 verb used inthe if-clausePresent SimplePresent Indicativeor Simple Future Indicativeverb used inthe main clauseFuture SimpleSimple Future Indicative 2 verb used inthe if-clausePast SimpleImperfect Subjunctiveverb used inthe main clausePresent ConditionalPresent Conditional 3 verb used inthe if-clausePast PerfectPast Perfect SubjunctiveThere is also the use of the Past Conditional instead fo the past perfect subjunctive.or Imperfect Indicative (sometimes in colloquial form)verb used inthe main clausePast ConditionalPast Conditionalor Imperfect Indicative (sometimes in colloquial form) Note Other forms for the second type hypothetical construction Instead of Imperfect Subjunctive in de if-clause you can also use constructions like: (1) Imperfect Subjunctive of the verb "vesser" + deprepositions, or "da"dependig on the dialect + verb in the infinitive form or (2) Imperfect Subjunctive of the verb "havégh" + de + verb in the infinitive form Note Examples (in Milanese dialect): (1) se fussi de trovàll, ghe parlaria mi (If I were to find him I would talk to him) (2)se gh'havessi de trovàll, ghe parlaria mi (If I were to find him I would talk to him) Eventually the hypothetical period can be realized without if by using instead al (or its dialectal variants) + infinitive. This construction is confined to cases where the hypothesis concerns something that could happen and not something that could be in a certain way and when the subject (implied) of the hypothetical clause coincides with that of the main one. Example (in Milanese dialect): (3) al trovàll, ghe parlaria. (If I happened to find him, I would talk to him / When I find him, I 'll talk to him.) in which "al + verb in the infinitive form" is equivalent to saying "the moment the subject of the main sentence happened to + verb in the infinitive form'".