"I am reading the book even if you hate it."

Translation: Jeg leser boken selv om du hater den.

[Reid_FL]

When do I use "hvis" as opposed to "om"?

[OlderThanRome]

I would like to know the same, since 'Jeg leser boken selv om du hater det' is accepted, but 'Jeg leser boken selv hvis du hater det' is not.

[IanPeck4]

If the sentence has a condition, then use 'hvis.'

Think of If-Then statements in English, like the one above.

"Om" can be conditional too, but it can also be used without conditions.

[TheAmazingGoat]

Why don't we say here "jeg leser boken selv om hater du den"? Because I think if we inverted the order it would be "selv om du hater den leser jeg boken". I am confused.

[Erin396857]

You would say "..hater du.." if this part of the sentence was dependent on the first part. I can read a book and you can hate it but neither is dependent on the other. If the sentence was "If you hate the book, I will read it" (or something like that), the the second part would end up being "..leser jeg...". Recall the V2 rule--the verb takes the second place of the sentence. The first part of the "If..." sentence takes the first part, then the verb, noun, etc.

[kathrineaa]

Kan man ikke si "uansett" istedet for "selv om" i denne situasjonen??

[Mats801]

When do you use "hvis" or "om"?

[AlsEenPoffertje]

Would "...om du hater det" also be okay, or must you use "den" when a masculine or feminine noun follows over to another clause?

[IceColors]

You always have to use "den" for m or f noun replacements.

Jeg leser boken selv om du hater boken - I am reading the book even if you hate the book

If they meant that you hate the concept that i am reading the book, and not hate the book, you would use "det" instead.

[AlsEenPoffertje]

Greit. Tusen takk! :D

[Paranoix]

"you" in this sentence hates reading or the book?

[Deliciae]

My first assumption would be that they hate the book. There are a couple other technical possibilities, but none of them likely.

[jummysums]

So we may think of "selv om" as meaning "even if" . Is there any grammatical context where this is not so?

[Deliciae]

Yes, there are contexts were "om" has another meaning: "selv om dagen" = "even during the day".