Wish: I wish you knew Danish so you could teach me. (It has to be conditional for the can, I think.) "I wish I had known you better" means there is no chance now to get to know this person, so it is in the past. If you still could get to know this person, it would be: "I wish I knew you better" Also, grammatically it would be: "I'd wish you the best of luck, but you already have it." But I would never say that to someone! It sounds kind of rude. I would just say "I wish you the best of luck!" Hope - That sentence is right! I worked it out, and I don't think you can ever use hope in the past tense. "I hoped that you would be cool" or "I had hoped that you would be cool" both mean that you had this hope in the past, but it did not end up working out (like they turned out not to be cool!). The second one is more formal. So you can say that you had a hope in the past, but you can't hope for something in the past (because it's too late, and it has already happened) Both of your examples for If are correct! If I were an astronaut, I would go to the moon. If I had studied harder, I could have passed the test. If we go to the movies, we will have to spend money. If you eat the cake, you will feel sick.

You seem to have the right idea about how to use these words. 1. " I wish you knew Danish so you COULD teach me.". This is a hypothetical/unreal situation, so you need 'could' rather than 'can' 2. " I wish I had known you better." Yes, this is OK. You would say this in a situation where it is now too late to get to know this person. For example, after someone dies, you might say - with regret - 'I wish I had known him better'. 3. "I'd wish you the best OF luck but you have it already." Yes, this is grammatically OK too, although it's a different meaning of 'wish' from the one above. 'Wish' in the sense of 'wish someone luck' or 'wish someone happy birthday', for example, works in a different way from the 'wish' in the sense of wishing that a situation were different (1) or regretting a lost chance (2). 4. "I hope they have cake in the fridge" = present tense, looking forward. You are on your way to visit someone and you are feeling hungry. You don't know whether or not there'll be cake in the fridge, but you hope there will be. "I hoped they would have cake in the fridge." This is an example of 'hope' in the past. You're saying how you felt at some point in the past. It might continue like this: "I hoped they would have cake in the fridge, and I wasn't disappointed. When I arrived, I saw a delicious chocolate gateau in the fridge.' 5. "If I had enough money, I would buy you the bike." Perfect 2nd conditional, talking about a hypothetical situation in the present or future. "If I'd had the money, I would've bought you the bike." Perfect 3rd conditional, talking about a hypothetical situation in the past. All good!

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