Weitere Beispiele werden automatisch zu den Stichwörtern zugeordnet - wir garantieren ihre Korrektheit nicht.
Finally, as in English, counterfactual conditions in the past are expressed by backshifting the apparent time reference.
The "shifting back" of tense as described in the previous paragraph may be called backshifting or an attracted sequence of tenses.
Indirect speech in Russian and other Slavic languages generally uses the natural sequence of tenses (there is no backshifting).