"Om jag hade pengar skulle jag köpa nya kläder."
Translation:If I had money, I would buy new clothes.
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The structure is like this:
[subclause] skulle jag köpa nya kläder,
which makes the verb fall nicely into the 2nd place in the sentence where we like to have it.
I didn't get it.
So "om jag hade pengar" is like an adverb that comes in the beginning of the sentence so it forces "skulle" to come before Jag?
Yes, a subclause can fill 'a place' in a sentence just like an adverb can. There's a much longer post about word order here that might be helpful too: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/8970470
Wow, that was fast! I'm sure you don't need a lingot, but you deserve one anyway. You can probably find a deserving recipient to pass it on to ...:-)
I do have a few, but I appreciate the gesture anyway. Cheers. :)
How woukd one say 'if I had money, would I buy new clothes?' is it the same just with a question mark?
I had the same question. However, it is hard when it comes to verbal swedish. Just a thought.. but maybe using "så" here would help differentiate it from a question. Like in : Om jag hade pengar så skulle jag köpa kläder. Can somebody confirm?
In older/formal English, it's sometimes acceptable to say "Had I money, I would ..." instead of "If I had money, ..."
Is there some equivalent to this in swedish? "Hade jag pengar skulle jag ..."
"If I had the money I would buy new clothes" was not accepted, but sounds much more natural than the translation given.
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Har en dröm som ska bli sann
Jag vill ha en förmögen man
Som ger mig allt jag pekar på
Ja, allt jag drömt om ska jag få
Money, money, money
Jag och han i
Rikemannens värld
Money, money, money
Sagan sann i
Rikemannens värld
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