Lo que hubiera dado yo........

Lo que hubiera dado yo........
 

Can someone explain this to me? I have seen hubiera used in forms of ..."Si hubiera una tienda por aquí".. If there was a store around here... "Si yo hubiera"... If I had...
But I don't think this one fits with either of those. This whole frase has be confused. The only part I get is "to have a dress like this".

lo que hubiera dado yo de pequeña tener un vestido así

What had I given as a little girl to have a dress like that.

The I have gave for have a dress like that?.....


I don't know if my practice is right, please you feeling you free to correcting me.

Is that interrogative construction (had I) to give more emphasis? :thinking:

Yes, it is a shortened (and not very good :D) form of "What would I have given..." which I suppose is a rhetorical interrogative (I've just invented that).

"Rhetorical interrogative"...Kudos, Perikles!

Thank you. I've just checked in my Latin primer, and it calls them rhetorical questions. It also has a handy note which says 'Questions in the 1st and 3rd person are often rhetorical'. I suppose they are really: Why am I alive? or What is that idiot doing? :rolleyes:

I always have problems with that one...

What would I have given, to me it means" Qué habría dado..."

It was my first thought but then I changed it. :p

Gracias. Así que en este frase, "de pequeña" puede ser usado como "as a little girl". ¿Ese funciona en otras frases?