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In this article, I will seek to explain a very widespread phenomenon in colloquial Spanish: the use of the imperfect ( andaba ) in contexts for which, in a more formal register, it would be preferable to use the so-called  condicional  ( andaría ). An example is «Yo que tú me lo pensaba» (meaning  If I were you, I would think about it ) instead of «Yo que tú me lo pensaría». To this aim, this paper will sketch out a semantic characterization of the Spanish simple tenses that does not build on the idea of a  timeline  or  time axis , and that therefore does not include notions such as  past ,  present  or  future  or even  anteriority ,  posteriority  or  simultaneity . As will be shown, this characterization allows a simple and intuitive explanation of the aforementioned phenomenon.

«Yo que tú me lo pensaba »: por qué ignorar el condicional (y el paso del tiempo)