how to say in French: "We should have been able to have gone there"
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Cheryl N.Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
how to say in French: "We should have been able to have gone there"
3 verbs all in the past tense: how many past participles please?
e.g. here's a guess of the translation: nous aurions dû pouvoir y être allés.
correct?/incorrect?
Merci !
Amicalement,
Cheryl
Asked 8 years ago
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Bonjour Cheryl !
Bravo ! Your translation is indeed correct here.
If you want to have a look, here's links to our "could have / should have / would have" lessons:
- https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/understand-and-use-pouvoir-in-le-conditionnel-passe-to-express-could-have
- https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/understand-and-use-devoir-in-le-conditionnel-passe-to-express-should-have
-https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/grammar/conjugate-regular-er-ir-and-dre-verbs-avoir-in-le-conditionnel-passe-past-conditional
À bientôt !
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