"Han skulle ha blivit gammal om han inte hade dött."

Translation: He would have become old if he had not died.

[Stigjohan]

Det gäller väl de flesta ...

[Sirmar]

Alla dör och de flesta blir gamla...

[Michael868015]

Jag had bestämt mig för att leva för alltid. ... och hittills har det fungerat (pleace let me know if my swedish is wrong) tack

[devalanteriel]

hade, thought it arguable makes more sense as har ("I have decided", rather than "I had decided"). Otherwise it's spot on!

[FLchick]

Alla dör pa sluta. (If this is wrong let me know and I will edit it - PS I don't know the keystrokes for the diacritic "a". Takk.)

[devalanteriel]

Do you mean "everybody dies in the end"? That'd be alla dör i slutet.

(Also, I've seen you write takk twice here now. That's Norwegian. :p It's tack in Swedish.)

[frrro]

Sounds wrong to my native ears, we dont die during the end, we die at the end... Alla dör till slut

[hm437e]

If you are using macOS or iOS hold down the vowel key and a choice will come up. IN OS hit the corresponding number while holding down the vowel key; in iOS slide across to the required letter

[mhuletdev]

On macOS at least on a US English QWERTY keyboard, you can get an å by holding down "Option" and hitting the "a" key. You can get ä and ö by holding down "Option" and hitting the "u" key ("u" for "umlaut"), and then releasing them and then hitting either the "a" or "o" key

[HaniAl-seb]

What's the difference between become and became in this sentence? I wrote became and it was marked as wrong

[devalanteriel]

After "would have" you need the past participle - "become", in this case. Since "became" is the simple past form, it doesn't work. But it's not uncommon in colloquial speech, so you've probably heard it that way.

[RiiaC]

And why not "would have been", which phrase in English sounds more natural to my ear than "would have become"

[devalanteriel]

That would have been varit rather than blivit. Swedish does make a clear difference between them, which is hard to teach without maintaining the difference in translation.

[Martyna342724]

OK, men varför korrigerar ni min engelska om jag vill lära mig svenska?

[devalanteriel]

If you get the English wrong, we can't be sure you've understood the Swedish. And there are lots of people taking the course to learn Swedish while improving their English.

[Christina_Hamsun]

Should om inte han hade dött be also correct? Like in that case with om inte tjuven hade stulit min bil..

[frrro]

Sounds perfectly fine to me and means the exact same thing. /native