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Jellybaby
July 18, 2014, 06:23 AM
"Cómo se dice..."

"We asked that he would give us everything we need and that he would sort it out for us."

"Pidimos que nos daría lo que nos hacía falta y que nos lo solucionaría."

wrholt
July 20, 2014, 10:46 AM
Pidimos que nos diera lo que nos hacía falta y que nos lo solucionara.

In English the modal verb "would" has multiple uses; they are expressed with different verb tenses in Spanish. In your sentence, you are expressing a request for someone else to do something; the request is expressed using a subjunctive. Because the verb of requsting is imperfect indicative, we use the imperfect subjunctive for the request.