Урок 26. Сослагательное наклонение. Lesson 26. The subjunctive mood.

As well as forming the conditional mood, the past tense of the verb + the particle бы renders the subjunctive in Russian. There are no sets of distinctive verbal endings or different subjunctive tenses of the sort found in, for example, French, Italian and Spanish. As in these Western European languages, though, the subjunctive in Russian is used in concessive clauses and in subordinate clauses after verbs of wishing. It may also be used,  in subordinate clauses after verbs of ordering, permitting, fearing and doubting and after various negative antecedents.