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"Jag kommer att ha ringt henne innan du kommit dit."
Translation:I will have called her before you have arrived there.
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It’s perfectly acceptable. The ”har” can be left out in certain contexts in more formal writing and sometimes in speech as well since the ”kommit” shows the tense on its own.
So the "kommit" here implies the tense "ha kommit"? If all you need it the supine ending in the verb, why put "ha" in ever?
It used to be common a few hundred years ago to exclude the ha in some certain types of clauses. It has now recently entered the spoken language as well to some extent, but you cannot remove it everywhere and you can still always include the ha.
Atleast i listened to the queation ten times,but with regular speed even for one time i could not hear ...henne.m
It is there, but I think it's hard to hear the "-e" of "henne" before the "i-" of "innan". To me it sounds a bit like "...ringt hen-innan..."
My best advice is just keep practising. I find listening the hardest aspect of a language, but I can definitely feel progress with Duo, over time :-) Things that once sounded impossible now sound like clear words, especially with longer sentences where I used to just get lost!
I hear it very clearly. I'm sorry, I don't know what else to say. It's definitely there.
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It's there but I certainly gets lost in the sentence. It sounds like 'he' rather than 'henne'. I would never have guessed what it was unless i already knew it was there.
I was going to say exactly the same, that "henne" is very hard to hear. I guess once you already know what the sentence is saying it's like your brain hears it, but when you don't know it's almost impossible to distinguish what it says there.
That'd be kommer in Swedish - we're a bit more adamant about not changing tense here than in real life.
Can someone explain this sentence to me? I don't get why the second part is in past perfect if we're talking about the future...
It isn't really, it's the same as the other sentences in this section. If you consider "Du kommer att ha kommit dit" / "You will have arrived there" I think the future perfect tense is clearer. The second part in the whole sentence is just the "kommit dit" bit of this shorter sentence and the "kommer att ha" bit is implied by the first part.
The English version is a little similar. In "I will have called her before you have arrived there" there's a sort of implied "will" as in "you will have arrived there".
Are we allowed to do this in English?
PS I obviously meant present perfect, not past perfect (which is used to describe past actions anyway).
Not sure which bit you mean. "You will have arrived there" is perfectly standard English, as is Duo's English version of the full sentence. It would sound very odd if you put the second "will" into the full sentence, but I'm not sure if it's technically wrong. If you swap the order of the parts it's fine: "You will have arrived there after I have called her". (Although not a close enough translation for Duo to accept, I'm sure).
I was trying to explain that both parts are talking about the future, but some words are missed out because the second part depends on the first part. Sorry if that's not any clearer.
I don't understand the sentence. Why not "I would have called her before you have arrived there."
.. innan du HAR kommit dit. It is ok to remove "har" when speaking, but should be used in written swedish.
I'd say it's perfectly acceptable even in very formal context, actually.
Ok - thought it was not okay to leave "har" out in the formal context. You learn something new every day.
