"If she asked me to, I would wait."

Translation: Kdyby mě požádala, počkal bych.

[JamesTWils]

Is the inverted word order in the final clause absolutely necessary? I wrote "bych počkal" and was told I needed "já bych počkal."

[Jamie08MD]

Yes. "Bych" is a clitic, so it has to be the second element in a sentence. Either "já bych počkal" or "počkal bych".

[vladik233475]

kdyby mě požádala byl bych čekal ??

[A477]

byl bych= I would be
čekal bych= I would wait

you only need one verb

[Pollyhs]

is that the same rule for all the other forms bychom /bys etc.

[VladaFu]

vladik is actually a native Czech speaker and is suggesting a feature called Past conditional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_conjugation#Conditionals

It is not too common, but possible for unreal conditions in the past. Which is not the case here, here we have the second conditional. I would only accept Czech past conditional for the English third conditional.

[Anna649558]

Hi, i wrote Ja bych počkal kdyby mě požádala and it was not accepted. Is something wrong with the order of the words in this case?