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| if; would (used only with the inf. or past tense of a verb); should | |||
| indicates conditional-subjunctive mood; used to express a mild advice; used to express a mild order; used to express a polite suggestion (ты бы бросил курить – you should give up smoking • вам лучше бы пойти самому – you had better go yourself); used to express a wish (был бы он здесь! – if only he were here! • побольше бы нам таких людей – we should have (or could use) more people like that) | |||
| would (частица • at that time, any geometrical system not in absolute agreement with that of Euclid's would have been considered as obvious nonsense • in order to produce such an amount of energy, this thermal power plant would require as much as 100 tons of coal); could (частица • without the friction between our shoes and the floor we could not walk) | |||
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| could do with something (VLZ_58) | |||
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