"Han antar att hans vänner är här."

Translation: He assumes that his friends are here.

[ToriGezellig]

So this specifically means someone else's friends, rather than "Han antar att sina vänner är här?"

[HelenCarlsson]

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.

[key561740]

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.

[Rebecca622484]

I am curious about this too.

[ahferroin7]

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.

[patrickoudejans]

I'd like to know that as well.

[Raasquart]

...and so they are. Buried in the garden.

[Tracie463621]

they could be invisible

[Tracie463621]

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?

[Marianne479158]

I wonder that too. Can someone explain why 'think' does not work here?

[JohnPap7]

I have the same question

[ahferroin7]

'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.

[HelenCarlsson]

Antar: http://sv.forvo.com/search-sv/antar/ (Nov 23, 2014)