" due to the fact that its formation is similar to that of the future. The conditional is used to describe a potential or hypothetical event, and verbs in the conditional mood are often translated into English as 'would VERB', e.g. 'I would read the book' would be Do të lexuaja librin.
Present conditional paradigm of shkruaj 'write':
|1st person||do të shkruaja||do të shkruanim|
|2nd person||do të shkruaje||do të shkruanit|
|3rd person||do të shkruante||do të shkruanin|
The Albanian past conditional is formed with do plus the subordinator të plus a past perfect subjunctive verb form. The past conditional is translated into English as 'would have VERBed', e.g. 'I would have read the book' would be Do të kisha lexuar librin.
Past conditional paradigm of shkruaj 'write':
|1st person||do të kisha shkruar||do të kishim shkruar|
|2nd person||do të kishe shkruar||do të kishit shkruar|
|3rd person||do të kishte shkruar||do të kishin shkruar|
Similar to the Geg future tense, the Geg conditional is formed from a conjugated imperfect form of kam plus the infinitive. For example, the Geg equivalent of do të lexoja librin 'I would read' would be kisha me lexuë librin (where me lexuë is the infinitive of lexoj).