"I will have called her before you have arrived there."
Translation:Jag kommer att ha ringt henne innan du kommit dit.
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Sorry for missing this question earlier. No, it's mandatory in the main clause. Some people do leave it out but it sounds very colloquial.
1266
In German the auxiliary verb for the perfect tense is mandatory but in old or poetic style it is occasionally omitted in sub-clauses.
har kommit is fine, but kom would mean "came", so it's the wrong tense.
Are innan and före synonyms, I mean can one use them in all the same situations? I tried före here but it wasn't accepted.
Wow, this was something strange, maybe anyone can help me clarifying this: I wrote "Jag kommer att ha ringt henne innan du kommer att kom dit" and it was marked as wrong, I guess it was wrong because I should write "du har kommit dit", but the official answer is "du kommit dit", is this really right? I mean, "you HAVE arrived" is translated as "du kommit"? I'm really confused right now :/
The most proper way of writing this would indeed have been ... innan du har kommit dit, but it's very common in Swedish to just skip the har in such clauses, especially in an informal context.
- 1266
yes, in Jonas Jonasson's Analfabeten som kunde räkna, the auxiliar verb form of ha is very often omitted before the supinum in subordinate clauses.
"Jag kommer att ha ringt henne innan du är framme" is the closest I can get. The sentence doesn't imply exactly where you are going, but it should be clear from context.
