potencial

/potenˈθjal/ · B1 · adj

potential

🌱 Twin of English potential, from Latin potentia = power, being able

Spanish spells the -tial ending as -cial and says it like thee-AHL in Spain. Older Spanish grammars call the conditional tense el potencial, the mood of what could be (hablaría = I would speak).

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