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[fossil compass]

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[blissful moon]

What is "it"?

[glacial crow]

hi! please add more context, we can't really give an explanation without knowing what you're confused about

[fickle ginkgo]

🤔

Veuille expliquer ta question s’il te plaît.

[turbid sleet]

Sorry i was busy

They tell me this is how you say

I wish I would have

Or i wish i could have

[hybrid estuary]

Are you confused about the tense? It's the plus-que-parfait. It's used to talk about an action which precedes another action. You were wishing or hoping about the past event before the past event, so it's in the plus-que-parfait.

I had wished to go to the cinema, but I was angry.
J'aurais souhaité que je sois allée au cinéma, mais j'étais en colère.

I wish I had gone to the cinema, but I was angry.
Je souhaite que je sois allée au cinéma, mais j'étais en colère.

I think which way you said it would depend on when you were doing the wishing. If the wishing happened before the thing, use the plus-que-parfait. If the wishing is happening now, I think you should use the present, though I might have misunderstood, as I haven't spent a lot of time on this tense yet.

[blissful moon]

There are some problems with your answer, unfortunately.

"J'aurais souhaité" is not an example of the plus-que-parfait, it's the past conditional

Your examples, "J'aurais souhaité que je sois…" and "Je souhaite que je sois…" are also not quite right because the same subject is used in the main clause as is used in the subordinate subjunctive clause

As for how the past conditional is used, it's primary use is in if statements, with the corresponding tense being the plus-que-parfait

• I would have gone to the movies if it hadn't rained →

• je serais allé au cinéma s'il n'avait pas plu

• If he had been nicer, I would have liked to get maried to him →

• S'il avait été plus gentil, j'aurais souhaité me marier avec lui

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/si-clauses-third-conditional/
https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/conditional-perfect/