If you had invited me I would have gone in German 🇩🇪

Sentence info.

The sentence is a Type-III conditional describing an unreal past situation. It consists of two clauses:

• The “if‐clause” (protasis) uses “wenn” with the verb in the past subjunctive (Konjunktiv II Plusquamperfekt). Here, “eingeladen hättest” is formed by the auxiliary verb “hätte” (conjugated for “du” → “hättest”) and the past participle “eingeladen.”

• The main clause (apodosis) states the result and also uses Konjunktiv II Plusquamperfekt. “Wäre ich gegangen” is built with the auxiliary “wäre” (for “gehen”) and the past participle “gegangen.” Note that “gehen” uses “sein” as its auxiliary in compound tenses.

Tips to remember:
• In conditional sentences about past hypotheticals in German, use the subjunctive form (Plusquamperfekt) to express unreality.
• The conjunction “wenn” goes at the beginning of the subordinate clause, pushing the verb to the very end, so “eingeladen hättest” appears as a split construction.
• Memorize common irregular forms for the auxiliaries “haben” (hätte, hättest, hätte, etc.) and “sein” (wäre, wärst, wäre, etc.) as they are used frequently in these constructions.

Alternate ways to express the same idea:
• “Hättest du mich eingeladen, wäre ich gegangen.” (This inversion, placing the verb first, is common in German conditional sentences.)
• “Wäre ich von dir eingeladen worden, wäre ich gegangen.” (This version uses the passive construction “eingeladen worden” to slightly shift the focus.)

Each version maintains the structure of a past unreal condition followed by an unreal result, using the appropriate Konjunktiv II forms.

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