"Han antar att hans vänner är här."
Translation:He assumes that his friends are here.
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So this specifically means someone else's friends, rather than "Han antar att sina vänner är här?"
Well, here you have a main clause and a subordinate clause, where "han" is a subject in one and "hans vänner" is a subject in the other. "Sin" is used only for objects.
Han besöker sina vänner.
Han hoppas att hans vänner vill besöka honom.
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So how would you say if he means not his own friends, but the friends of a third person? Because I had the same idea first.
I don't think there is a way to concisely express this in Swedish, just like there really isn't a way to express it in English without periphrasis.
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How come at other times 'antar' can mean 'think' but here it means only 'assume'? I have used the word think for 'antar' with quite a few sentences, but with this one, there is always a problem. How come there is a difference with this one only?
'antar' always refers to making an assumption or supposition. English sometimes uses 'think' in this context (though often with a higher degree of certainty than 'antar' appears to imply), but Swedish explicitly differentiates it from expressing a belief or a more concrete guess about things.
I think that supposes and assumes can be interchangeable and I do not like to use assume because of the bad jokes that people make with it . So I think that my answer could be accepted . But I have a mistake any way I used singular instead of plural.