Breakdown of Chokoladen kommer til at smelte i tasken.
i
in
tasken
the bag
chokoladen
the chocolate
komme til at
to inevitably happen / to accidentally do
Questions & Answers about Chokoladen kommer til at smelte i tasken.
Why use kommer til at instead of vil or skal here?
The choice of future tense is important here. We use kommer til at because the chocolate melting is an inevitable or accidental result, not a planned action. If you used skal, it would sound like someone scheduled the melting, and vil might imply that the chocolate has a mind of its own and 'wants' to melt!
Is the word at necessary before smelte?
Yes, it is required. The construction is always kommer til at followed by the infinitive verb (here, smelte). This is different from the modal verbs skal and vil, which are followed directly by the infinitive without an at.
Both chokoladen and tasken end in -n. Are they following the same grammar rule?
Yes! Both en chokolade (a chocolate) and en taske (a bag) are common-gender nouns that already end in the letter -e. To make them definite meaning 'the chocolate' and 'the bag', you simply add -n to the end, giving you chokoladen and tasken.
If I wanted to start the sentence with 'In the bag' (I tasken), does the word order change?