"I was hoping you would come."
Translation:Jag hoppades att du skulle komma.
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It's not passive, it's something called a deponent verb, an active verb that looks as though it were passive.
We intend to add a text about these somewhere.
EDIT: that text now exists, read it here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/6094592
I didn't dare go with "jag hade hoppats att", anyone know if it would have flown?
"Du" is the subject of action here, so it has to be "du". In English it's "you" for both subject and object, but compare it to the sentence "I was hoping he would come", where you can't substitute "he" for "him".
Yeah - remember, we don't have a continuous tense in Swedish. So just as hoppas corresponds to both "hopes" and "is hoping", hoppades corresponds to both "hoped" and "was hoping".
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In English, I would guess that this is mostly said as a way to invite someone to something. Is it used that way in Swedish?
Honestly, you could translate this as I was hoping you were going to come as well as I was hoping you would come.
