(si) j'avais pu, (j'aurais adopté ce chien) : (if) I had been able to, (I would have adopted that dog)pouvoir, plus-que-parfait
The French third conditional (si + past perfect → past conditional) expresses hypothetical past actions: the consequences of a past action which never happened.
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