Where would links to the forms of would go? e.g. wouldst 161.142.24.130 12:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I added Swedish translations for every meaning except the last one.
Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 197, reads
Volitional past-time "would" is normally excluded from affirmative contexts with singulary dynamic situations, so that we couldn’t replace wouldn’t by would in I had no money on me but he wouldn’t lend me any where we'd use instead unmodalised lent me some (or was willing to lend me some, etc.) The contexts allowing would are a little broader than the ordinary non-affirmative ones: for example, just permits would but not any, so we can have The text would just fit on one page, but not ∗I just had any money.
What contexts other than the ordinary ordinary non-affirmative ones, of the type of just, allows it? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:22, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
What meaning is used in "A co-worker is having a girl. Thought we'd congratulate him" --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:12, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
what meaning is used in would you look at me? in the context it's uttered? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMS3y5KfyyI --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:59, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
IDIOM: used to say that one has not experienced something "That restaurant has the best desserts!" B: "I wouldn't know. I've never been there." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/I%20wouldn%27t%20know
What meaning of would(n't) is used in that idiom? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:07, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
OED 42 (In the apodosis of a conditional sentence (expressed or implied), in the 2nd or 3rd pers., forming the auxiliary of the simple ‘conditional mood’, expressing merely a possibility or contingency in the supposed case (For the distinction between should and would see note s.v. shall v. B . 19b.) cf. 14 (In 2nd and 3rd pers., as auxiliary expressing mere futurity, forming (with pres. inf.) the future, and (with pf. inf.) the future pf. tense: corresponding to shall in the 1st pers. (see note s.v. shall v. B. 8); b. As auxiliary of future substituted for the imper. in mild injunctions or requests). For the distinction between should and would see note s.v. shall v. B . 19b.) 42d. I wouldn't know: see know v. 11g (** In various phrases, arranged in the chronological order of their first recorded use in English as far as this is determinable: g.III.11.g to know little (or nothing) and care less: to be unconcerned about; to be studiously ignorant of. ) --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:36, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
I think in google books the form woul'n't is attested enough --Backinstadiums (talk) 21:59, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
What does the definition "might wish" exactly mean? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:58, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
That statement from the usage note is contradictory, isn't it? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:00, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
What meanings would apply to I wish you'd stay and That'd d be Steve at the door? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:32, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
should reads (auxiliary, formal, literary) A variant of would with first person subjects; however, I don't know of what meaning(s) of would exactly it's a variant --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:38, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
What is going on here?
I would expect "pleased if ... had married his daughter". What sense of would is this? Equinox ◑ 19:38, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Does that sense have to be past? How about discussion of future events, but with the same connotation?
Or is this overlapping another sense? —DIV (1.145.32.243 10:39, 10 November 2022 (UTC))