"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.
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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?
