Noun

third conditional (plural third conditionals)Category:English lemmas#THIRDCONDITIONALCategory:English nouns#THIRDCONDITIONALCategory:English countable nouns#THIRDCONDITIONALCategory:English multiword terms#THIRDCONDITIONALCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#THIRDCONDITIONALCategory:Pages with entries#THIRD%20CONDITIONALCategory:Pages with 1 entry#THIRD%20CONDITIONAL

1. (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#THIRDCONDITIONAL, linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#THIRDCONDITIONAL) A structure used to convey unreal or unfulfilled events in the past, containing an if clause (with a verb in the past perfect) and a main clause (with would + the bare perfect infinitive of a verb).

   Coordinate terms: zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, mixed conditional

   "If Columbus hadn't discovered America, he wouldn't have been famous" is an example of the third conditional.