🚨this can be very confusing: the 2nd and 3rd conditionals may be translated as the same sentence in your mother tongue here is the difference:
2nd conditional
If I knew you were sick, I would visit you
Now you are not sick, but you might be in the future. It is imaginary, unreal in the present but could happen in the future
If + simple past + would+ verb
3rd conditional
If I had known you were sick, I would have visited you
You were sick and I didn’t visit you, this can’t be changed. We use to express regret or blame!
If + past perfect +would+have + past participle
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P.S: sorry for my handwriting 🙈
