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- "Vi har inte beställt vin."
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I take back my last comment about the nature of ordering. Here the present perfect is possible, because you could be saying, for example, that while the wine expert of a group of friends was absent, they decided to wait until he returned to order the wine.
On the other hand, if something arrived at your table that you didn't order and never intended to order, you would use the preterite (also spelled without the final e, and also sometimes called the simple past tense). E.g.,"We did not order wine."
Beställt seems to be related to ställt (put). Could someone say if this is correct and how adding the prefix "be" turns it into "ordered", please.
Thank you. Very helpful. I can now see from my dictionary that many Swedish words, and quite a few English, are formed by adding be- in this way. Begråta, for example, seems to have the same construction and meaning as bewail.