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No, Swedish does not work like German in that respect. It’s påverka all the way.
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I answered, "it's not going to bother us." I'm guessing "bother" would be more of a personal thing and "affect" more a factual thing? I hope my question makes sense.
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bother is always negative but affect is neutral, it could be good or bad. For bother, I'd say störa or besvära in Swedish.
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Duo's algorithm for typos is that you can have one letter wrong so long as it doesn't turn the word into another word, so the answer is no.
Thanks for the reply, can you provide an example where "ska" is used with "det"
Affect vs Effect in Swedish? Are they such similar words like they are in English?
Not really, the verb "effect" is e.g. åstadkomma or få till stånd.
It's a slightly different sentence construction, and not really an idiomatic English phrasing.
I think this is wrong, but in the English. "Affect" means an affectation. "Effect" means "influence on" is proper 90% of the time and should be used here too, I think.
To "affect" is a verb meaning to have an effect on something. Thinking that verb is "effect" is a very common mistake in English, though.
Does "kommer att" has a past tense equivalent? Or how would you say "It wasn't going to affect us....but it did"?
kom att, but it's not very common, since you could just use the past tense of the verb instead.
Thank you. But I think it's different to say i.e. "I am going cook" or "I was going to cook". The latter means an intention that didn't happen, kind of like "wanted to cook", isn't it? So I can't say "I was cooking" (with the past tense) because it means I was actually doing stuff?
Ah, yes, but we use the past tense of ska for that - so jag skulle laga mat. :)
Oh yes, of course, "ska" goes with international stuff! But...errr.... I guess you need the context them to decide weather it's "I was going to cook" or I would cook"?
That depends, I suppose. Could you please provide two full sentences?
Sure. So what if I want to say "I was going to cook dinner tonight, but I forgot to buy one of the ingredients" versus "I would cook dinner tonight if I had all the ingredients"
A lot of people would probably switch tense to jag skulle ha lagat mat..., but you can use jag skulle laga mat for both. :)
