What is the meaning of Would?
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
- Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
Wanted to.
Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
Might desire; wish (something).
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
Ellipsis of I would: used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.
Source: wiktionary.org
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
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