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, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
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.
Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
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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