hii,

I am learning English for around 5 years and I still can’t comprehend the meaning of “would” and “count” in some context. are they just past form of “will” and “can”?

“would you like coffee” means a person is asking if you liked coffee in past? “I would do it” means I did it in past?

I really don’t understand since my language doesn’t have anything like those words.

Edit: Thank you for answering my naive question :)

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    72·
    6 months ago

    No, they wrote “have” which I am saying is one of the issues with their comment

    • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      127·
      6 months ago

      “He have” instead of “he has,” etc.

      Then you meant to write “‘He has’ instead of ‘he have’”. You wrote it backwards. Thanks for the downvote for YOUR mistake.

      • tyler@programming.dev
        12·
        6 months ago

        They didn’t write a mistake. They’re correcting the original comment and their correction is worded correctly.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        9·
        6 months ago

        I probably should have worded it differently to be more clear but I was pointing out the mistakes so my grammar was correct.

        But speaking of mistakes, it looks like you just made your second one by implying I downvoted you!