Usage examples of "serait" in French with translation to English

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Ce serait mieux d'essayer. It would be better to try.
Il serait préférable que tu ne conduises pas de voiture. You had better not drive a car.
Ça serait gâcher leurs talents. That would be a waste of their talents.
Si vous m'aviez écoutée, rien de cela ne serait arrivé. If you had only listened to me, none of this would have happened.
Ça serait gâcher son talent. That would be a waste of his talent.
Si vous m'aviez écouté, rien de cela ne serait arrivé. If you had only listened to me, none of this would have happened.
Il serait ravi d'entendre ça. He would be glad to hear that.
Si tu m'avais écoutée, rien de cela ne serait arrivé. If you had only listened to me, none of this would have happened.
Ça serait chouette de nous marier. It would be nice to get married.
Si tu m'avais écouté, rien de cela ne serait arrivé. If you had only listened to me, none of this would have happened.
Ce serait gentil de lui dire. It would be a kindness to tell her.
S'il avait suivi les conseils de son médecin, il ne serait peut-être pas mort. Had he taken his doctor's advice, he might not have died.
Ça serait chouette de te marier. It would be nice to get married.
J'ai fait ce que j'ai dû faire, et ce serait à refaire que je le referais... I did what I had to do, and if I had to do it again, I would...
Que serait la vie sans espoir ? What would life be without hope?
NASA dit qu'elle possède assez d'information pour affirmer qu'une expédition humaine vers Mars serait possible. NASA says it has sufficient information to say that a human visit to the red planet is feasible.
Ça serait chouette de me marier. It would be nice to get married.
Tu as vu son travail ? Il aurait voulu mal le faire qu'il ne s'y serait pas pris autrement. Did you see his work? Would he have wanted to do it badly, he wouldn't have proceeded otherwise.
Essayer de le ramener serait imprudent. To try to bring it back would be foolish.
Dans son essai « l'Espéranto  : langue européenne ou asiatique », Claude Piron a montré les similitudes entre l'espéranto et le chinois, mettant à bas la conception que l'espéranto serait purement eurocentrique. In his essay "Esperanto: European or Asiatic language" Claude Piron has shown the similarities between Esperanto and Chinese, thereby putting to rest the notion that Esperanto is purely eurocentric.
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