In this article, conditional sentences of three Permic language forms are compared
in the light of a parallel corpus. The interest to write such an article
was initially piqued by the fact that both native and non-native researchers
and teachers of the Permic languages have different ideas about the form of
the predicate of the conditional sentence. The presence of the predicate in the
past tense form has been considered, at least among some native-speaker researchers,
as a hallmark of a ”pure language”. However, it seems that the
conditional sentences of the Permic languages have used a range of tenses for
quite a long time. Similarly, it has been suggested that the verb form of the
past tense would indicate the irreality of the conditional sentence, which is
not entirely true in the light of the material. In the conditional sentences of
the Permic languages, there is also other variation, for example, regarding the
conjunctions used in them and their location, as well as sentence order. In
this article, the mentioned variables are described and compared on a general
level.