"Hunden blev överkörd."
Translation:The dog was run over.
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Can you combine a passive and active clause? "Hunden blev överkörd och dog."
Kör seems to be driving but does överkörd work in other situations that aren't car related? Eg getting trampled in a mass running race like a marathon you could literally say "He fell and was run over by many people".
And, does the combination of över and körd work to create a new word in other similar situations (we were overrun (överspringd?) by the enemy; the government was overthrown (överkastas?) during the revolution; the boat was overturned (övervände?) by the wave... ?
In a crowd, people get nedtrampade (or nertrampade, there's no difference). Like 'trampled down'.
In some situations overrun can be överkörd. For instance, if you have a strong opinion about something but your boss decides it should be the opposite way, then chefen körde över dig and you blev överkörd. This is pretty strong. A weaker expression is stjälpa, which can sometimes be used when a decision is overturned. This feels more like someone spoiled something or something failed. planerna stjälptes 'the plans were overturned'.
If the government is overthrown, it will be fälld in a peaceful context (like: all other parties voted against it), and störtad if it's violent.
For a boat, stjälpte can also be used, båten stjälpte 'the boat turned over'.
So....could this also mean something like "We brought the dog over?" (We ran the dog over to your house)?
Haha just the thought of it being used in English to mean "We brought the dog over" is amusing :-)
"Hey, thanks for looking after Puppy while we were away!"
"Sure! Hope you don't mind, we ran him over–"
"WHAT?!"
"-to the dog park every day because he seemed to really love it."
">_<"
Yeah..... probably good to stick with "brought" if that's what you're going for.
Past participles are poorly taught in a lot of places in America. Is that true in other English-speaking countries?
What's the difference between 'Hunden blev överkörd' and 'Hunden överkördes', if any?
I think most natives would say there is no difference. I'd use a third option: hunden kördes över.
In your third option, hunden kördes över, kördes över is the passive past of the particle verb köra ö'ver, is that correct? But isn't överkörd the past participle of the particle verb and, as such, used as an adjective? So is there a difference between Hunden kördes över. and Hunden blev överkörd.? (I am still having difficulty with particle verbs, past participles)
They're synonymous, though there can be a slight difference in connotation since kördes över is grammatically strictly passive and blev överkörd isn't.
Pronunciation again. Is "överskörd" correct? It always sounds like "övershienk" to me.
It honestly sounds correct to me. The final rd is a retroflex consonant, not r + d individually, so perhaps that's the reason it's hard to hear?
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Can't get back to it now but it certainly did not sound identifiably correct. Yep, I'm aware of how the rd usually sounds (as in bordet) but thanks for your explanation. I didn't know such a combo is called "retroflex".
I honestly wouldn't rule out entirely that we've been given different audio, as that's happened before without prior notice.
Maybe a bit off topic in a swedish course but I am curious whether "the dog was overrun" could also be used as a correct translation here. Could any native english speaker help me out on this one?
No. Overrun in English is a synonym of overwhelmed, and pretty much only used in military contexts like being overrun by the enemy (like MatthewDWhite's example here in the discussion thread) or perhaps biological contexts, like native species being overrun by another invasive species. The object being overrun is usually a group, not a single individual.
I hear clearly an "nt" at the end so I was faced with translating something that doesn't exist!
I'm a native speaker and it sounds fine to me. Or at the very least I can't hear a clear "nt" sound.
