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The following is the conclusion of a dialogue between the concierge and a
resident. The concierge falsely accused the resident to be putting his bike in
front of the stairs, which is not allowed. The misunderstanding is finally
resolved and the concierge apologizes to the resident.

> Concierge: そうですね。申し訳ない。気を悪くしないでください。  
>  Resident: いえ、わかって **もらえれば** いいんです。

My translation:

> Concierge: So that's how it is. I'm sorry. Please don't take this as an
> offense.  
>  Resident: No problem, when I can receive the favor of understanding it, it
> is okay.

As apparent from my translation, I analysed もらえれば as a combination of the
potential form and the conditional form. If it was solely conditional form,
I'd expect もらえば.

I therefore tried to translate both the potential and the conditional form. It
sounds a bit iffy though, that's why I wanted to ask whether that's correct
and how you would translate it in a more elegant way.
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How does わかってもらえればいい work
もらう which follows a verb in -て form usually means "to get somebody to do
something". "えれば" is just a -ば form ending of the -ru-verbs (potential もらえる in
your case I believe), so that's pretty usual I think. So I would translate the
whole sentence as: "No problem, as long as I can get you to understand, it's
fine.", meaning that the resident is glad they could get concierge to
understand the situation and the incident is now over.

[Please look at this page.](http://www.manythings.org/ejs/understand.html)
Specifically, at the "I don't think I can get you to understand how difficult
that is." sentence. The Japanese translation is:

> 「その難しさを君に **わかってもらえる** とは思えない。」

Here you can see that わかってもらえる is "get to understand", literally "be able to
receive understanding", remembering that there is usually an implicit "you" in
the sentence when addressing others in Japanese. Also, appropriately mentioned
in comments, you don't say もらう to yourself. Now we have literal "If you are
able to receive understanding, good".

Or, in proper English:

"No problem, if I can get you to understand, it's fine."
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