"Yo habría gustado ir pero no pude" o "Yo hubiera gustado ir pero no pude"

Question

The sentence I would like to translate is:

I would have liked to go, but I could not.

When translating this, I suggested the conditional form of haber: habría, but Google's translation suggests the subjunctive conjugation hubiera.

My question is: is one of these demonstrably correct? Are they both correct depending on context, and if so, what would an appropriate context for each be? The reason I chose conditional is there seems to be no uncertainty or frequency to the desire to go (to wherever), so I geared towards indicative.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Historically, the conditional is the correct (note the italics) form, but nowadays the subjunctive is also accepted and widely used, I would roughly say 50% and 50%. The same speaker can use either, regardless of any condition, context, etc.

By the way, you are using gustar incorrectly. Just check that out in your A1 level book ;)

Answer 2

Both are wrong. The right sentence is

Me hubiera gustado ir

gustar uses an indirect object construct.

In English it would be something like:

Going would have been liked TO ME

Answer 3

You can use all these phrases in the espefic context of your phrase. An action in the past that not happen but you like it would be.

Me hubiera gustado ir
Me hubiese gustado ir
Yo habria gustado de ir
Yo hubiera gustado de ir