Phrase · 😔 Regrets and reproaches
Ojalá hubiéramos sabido esto antes de comprar los boletos.
I wish we'd known this before buying the tickets.
B2regretting reproachingAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
Ojalá1interjectionI wish, if onlyhubiéramos1verbwe hadhaber · subjunctive · imperfect · 1st pl.sabidoverbknownsaber · participle · past · masc. · sing.estopronounthissing.antesadverbbeforedepreposition(before)comprarverbbuyinginfinitivelosdeterminertheel · masc. · pl. · definiteboletos2nounticketsboleto · masc. · pl..
- Ojalá → hubiéramos: mood
- sabido → esto: obj
- comprar → boletos: obj
- boletos → los: agree
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Ojalá hubiéramos sabido: a regret about the past, with the written accent of every nosotros form. Past unreal conditions: pluperfect subjunctive and conditional perfect →
- 2boleto = ticket (bus, plane, concert) in most of Latin America; Spain says billete or entrada.
Variations
- Ojalá hubiésemos sabido esto antes de comprar los boletos.
- Ojalá hubiéramos sabido esto antes de comprar las entradas.