"The journalist does not want the lawyer to write the story."

Translation: Journalisten vil ikke have, at advokaten skal skrive historien.

[Ty732]

could you explain skal here

[lubenicalara]

Yes, why can't it be "Journalisten vil ikke have, at advokaten skriver historien."?

[DieLegende2]

It's really just want how the idiom works in Danish

I don't want x to happen = Jeg vil ikke have det at x skal ske

[londoncallling]

Could you leave out the 'have' in this sentence?

[emilkris33]

Technically: Yes
In practise: No
I believe leaving 'have' out would technically count as correct Danish, but you you would sound weirdly formal and old-timey.

[Helene666293]

wrong hints

[Andreas-CPH]

This is not a literal translation, as we see in Duolingo so often. Maybe it would be better to change either the Danish or English sentence slightly? For example: "The journalist does not want that the lawyer will write the story". That would reflect the Danish sentence better.

[duodb]

But it's awkward English. (And I'm not sure that it does reflect the Danish better. Take this with a grain of salt, as I'm no expert, but I think the skal here shows more intent than plain future tense does.)