"Har du saltet?"
Translation:Do you have the salt?
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I put in 'have you any salt?' which is probably a bit too much Irish-English to be translated properly.
well it says saltet which is the salt so that is probably why it didn't take any salt
Old English or Anglo-Saxon is a separate language, spoken vaguely around AD 500-1000. Middle English is the next half-millennium, and then Modern English is the period since then. "Have you the..." is contemporary Modern English that was fully standard until the mid 20th century, and is a less common but still current variant in use to this day.
So no, not Old English.
I don't know where you're from but this is still used in everyday language in England.
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Thesentence structure in swedish is so much like that of english but It seems that it doesn't have helping verbs like do and does in making questions and negative forms.
Not unless you mean to express that you're surprised the person has the salt.
Why is it that way in Swedish? Because Swedish expresses questions like that.
Word for word, it is "Have you salt-the?".
In English this is traditionally "Have you the salt?" (i.e. the question is formed exactly as in Swedish), but the modern English tendency is towards auxiliary verbs, so we tend to modify it to "Have you got the salt?" or "Do you have the salt?".
It's the English that is a bit baffling. The Swedish is rather straight-forward.
Of course these are two different languages,even though they share common roots but the stems may vary.
It's swapped to imply that it's a question, instead of the "do" that English has to indicate a question.
I find english and swedish a bit interesting when it comes to asking questions. In portuguese we simply use different intonation at the end of the question when speaking, and simply ? when writing without changing the order in which the words are written/spoken.
