Que nada habría despues?? Translation

Question

I'm reading a work by Juan Rulfo and one of the lines goes "Uno ha creído a veces, en medio de este camino sin orillas, que nada habría después."

I can't understand the last part. He thinks at times that nothing would later have? He thinks at times that there would be nothing else? Can someone please explain the grammar?

Answer 1

It means "that there wouldn't be anything/would be nothing after that." One way that you could put it in Spanish so the grammar is less confusing is que después no habría nada. Although haber is used to mean the auxiliary verb to have, it is also used in all tenses to mean "there is" or "there are" (or were, would be, etc.) such as in the word hay or había. So habría is the conditional version of that.

well put Piedra :) - Kiwi-Girl, Apr 10, 2013