"indicative conditional" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: indicative conditionals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} indicative conditional (plural indicative conditionals)
  1. (grammar, linguistics) A type of conditional statement in natural language that expresses a relationship between two propositions, and used to convey the situation where the truth of one proposition (the antecedent) suggests or implies the truth of another proposition (the consequent).
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