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The word order here seems a bit confusing. If we're specifying a timeframe, 'Dan' is in the wrong place for the typical word order, isn't it? If it's used more like a conjunction, I would expect the translation to be "Then they would go to school" as, perhaps, a response to "What if it were a school day?"
June 5, 2015
No, that would be "dan zouden zij naar school zijn geweest". Sorry, I'm not a linguist, so I don't have a more grammatical explanation.
September 4, 2014
It's more like "After that/If ... happened, they would go to school." instead of "Back then, they would go to school."
December 17, 2014
Like 'Als het sneeuwt niet...,' a familiar conditional from winters my childhood.
December 30, 2014
