"Kommer juni före maj?"

Translation: Does June come before May?

[patrickmccarron]

Nej, Duo...juni kommer inte före maj.

[Ash-Fred]

Juni kommer elva månader före maj.

[deactivated user]

oh boy! so many polyglots on this discussion but I'm going to ask this anyway. How do I know when to use före instead of innan?

[Zmrzlina]

They're essentially synonymous.

[morbidmaster]

they are interchangeable i think,
please correct me if I’m wrong

[Sarah21189]

Only in the dictionary!

[deactivated user]

Jeez. Someone get Duo a calender...

[Anna244797]

Comes June before May? What is wrong with this sentence? Why isn' t just as right as: Does June come before May?

[Adi16545]

Comes June before May is just grammatically incorrect

[Jaetten]

"June comes before may?"
Shouldn't that also be correct?

[JoseeV64]

No, you wrote a statement with a question mark or an exclamation of surprise. The Swedish sentence is a normal question and so should be your translation.

[Jaetten]

Ok, thank you.

[kimmartin67]

I know this question just tests listening, but could one say irl, "Kommer juni innan maj?"

[jeareo]

Yep! To my understanding, före and innan are synonyms.

[HatemShah]

how about "june comes before may?" as if I'm repeating something someone else said in disbelief?

can this sentenece translate to that?

[Arnauti]

You could have done the same in Swedish, just with intonation, saying Juni kommer före maj?? (add så before to make it even more clear) and your sentence would translate that sentence.

[wesleyshih2]

Ja ... i Juni föregående år

[Lilja652023]

No

[morbidmaster]

nej.

[CriticJonni]

Has the TTS changed for "maj"? I am confused on how to pronounce "maj" now

[Brilli15Bri]

Nej

[iwontsay1]

Technically, yes. June 2020 comes before May 2021

[Joni_JKL]

Why correct answer is using capital letters for months?

[McLeods_Sons]

All the names of the days and months have capitals in English.
We aren't "pedantic" about it, but if you were writing a formal essay or something and you wrote "James Davidson was killed on friday, may 10", you would lose marks for not using a capital on Friday and May.
In German, ALL NOUNS are capitalised - chair, table, room, greed, anything that is technically a "thing" has a capital. English doesn't go this far but it capitalises more things than Swedish and Spanish.

[Rasla143]

that helps thanks

[ZoeGladToBeHere]

June och May är också namn på engelska.
Är Juni och Maj namn på svenska?

[ZoeGladToBeHere]

Eller heter? What's the difference between heter and namn?

[JoseeV64]

As far as I know "heter" is a verb (to be called) and "ett namn" is a noun (a name). BTW the names of months are not capitalised in Swedish.

[AboodEleyan]

Does june come before may

[ShFk14]

Why " are june coming .... not correct

[JoseeV64]

Like all months, June is singular and so you have to use the 3rd person singular of the verb: "Is June coming before May?" or "Does June come before May?"

[RubenB.1979]

I typed in"Will june come before May?" and it got rejected. Why is it wrong? Anyone out there know why?