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Rotter

#513680 Wed, 14 May 08 06:14 PM

Tack Cool Breeze

Jag tränar 3 gånger i vecka på SATS Sports Club. Jag håller på styrketräning.

Tack vare träningen väger jag 60-62 kilos.

[ I speak fluent Swedish. I never write Swedish. So my Swedish writing is not good. People say that I speak good Swedish. I don't have to write any Swedish at work. I work with servers. You don't need Swedish or Finnish to work with servers. Nowadays I try to practice my French while training at the gym. There are some French people training with me at the gym.]

I know Swedish, English and French conditionals follow the same pattern. I am not an expert in any of those languages.

[ Si j'ai de l'argent, j'achète une nouvelle voiture ]

[ Om jag har pengar, ska jag köpa en ny bil.]

{ In Swedish, the verb comes first in the main clause. Swedish is like that.}

[ If I have the money, I will buy a new car.]

Si = If

j'ai = I have

l'argent = the money

j'achete = I will buy

une nouvelle voiture = a new car

Rotter

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Clauses, Conditionals, Verbs

Cool Breeze

#513700 Wed, 14 May 08 07:43 PM

Rotter
[ Om jag har pengar, ska jag köpa en ny bil.]
{ In Swedish, the verb comes first in the main clause. Swedish is like that.}
[ If I have the money, I will buy a new car.]

Hi Rotter

Yes, of course, there are differences in the word order, but a similar auxiliary (ska, which is related to shall) and a present infinitive (köpa, buy) is needed in your sentence. And a perfect conditional is formed in the same way in English and Swedish as well:

If I had had money, I would have bought a car. = Om jag hade haft pengar, skulle jag ha köpt en bil.

I wish you a lot of success in your language acquisition efforts - French, that is!