Question from the forum:

OK, I’m trying desperately to wrap my head around imperfect subjunctives.

My question is, why would quisiera be used in this sentence:

¿Quién quisiera ir al cine conmigo?

or

Quisiera tener una taza de café.

… Why wouldn’t you say:

¿Quien querría ir al cine conmigo? using the conditional instead of imperfect subjunctive?

or

Yo querría tener una taza de café.

For example, wouldn’t you say “¿Quién le gustaría acompañarme al cine?” using the conditional form?

Or are both forms correct?

As usual, participants in the forum gave the questioner excellent answers; to see the question in its unedited form, see (or join!) the discussion on quisiera.

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Quisiera Often a Polite Word To Use originally appeared on About.com Spanish Language on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 13:42:42.

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