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- "Hon kommer efter honom."
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Um, awkward question, does this also carry the innuendo that it has in English?
I hate that hon is female and honom is male =/ cant it be han and hanom? They're pronouncing is differently abyways...
Haha you get used to it. Languages develop naturally over time so it's hard to change it ;) nobody mention the spelling reform
Based on context, could this also mean "she's less of a priority than him"?
Does this imply "He is going to arrive, and them she is going to arrive," or does it imply, "She is chasing him," or both?
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I am a native speaker and "She comes after him" is a good and literal translation. This then of course can have different meanings depending on context e.g.:
1 - She follows him
2 - She comes after him, - like B comes after A
3 - She is falling behind (e.g. in a race)
Oh no, now I realise 'jag kommer' has another meaning. How would I say "I am on my way" in svenska?
Yeah, the short ä and e are similar in most dialects. You just have to learn the speeling by heart.
Does this also mean, that her appearance/behaviour is like his? e.g. the girl is (more) like her father?
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In German, you can say sie kommt nach ihrem Vater meaning that her appearance or habits or talents or gestures resemble her father's.
Does this have the same meaning in Swedish as it does in English? As in order of things, and as in a threat? ex.) Im coming after you. She comes after her.
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I am a swede and I think, in the right context, as in English, it can even mean that she is pursuing him with some kind of intention if/when she catch up.
It's just the way the language works. Don't read into it too much in this case. It's similar to how "he" changes to "her" by adding an "r"
It's not a suffix. Honom is a pronoun unto itself, not a variant of "hon".
Her as a object pronoun --> henne
as a possessive thingie --> hennes or sin/sitt/sina
Funny where everyone's mind goes.
I interpreted this in the threatening sense. As in, "She comes to punish him, in retaliation [for some real or perceived wrongdoing]."
Does it also carry this additional meaning?
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From what we know it only means that "She is coming after him."
But just as in English we can try to imagine why she is doing that and what her intentions are.
- Perhaps she is behind him in some kind of race?
- Maybe he came in first and she is arriving a little bit later?
- It could be about the alphabetical order of their names?
- Or maybe she is following him and if she catch up she intend to kill / kiss / beat / tickle him?
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Or, "She could be coming after him with a rolling pin!" ("Hon följer honom med en kavel").
Does this sentence mean that she comes after him in a sequence of people or that she is following him somewhere?
It's much like in English, where it can mean practically any kind of coming after.
This seems ambiguous. Is she coming to a specific place at a later time, is she out to get him e.g. to get child support, or either?
That would be grammatically incorrect (hon går efter honom) unless the man was you...and thats rare
Why would that be grammatically incorrect? It's perfectly fine Swedish.
In this case, could "kommer" also mean "arrives?" Or is there a completely different way to say arrive?
So, does "efter" both mean the fact of being behind something/somebody in context of time and space?
