Alle kom uskadd hjem.

to come

Breakdown of Alle kom uskadd hjem.

• alle: everyone
• hjem: home
• uskadd: unharmed; uninjured

Questions & Answers about Alle kom uskadd hjem.

What does alle mean here—everyone or all?

Here, alle most naturally means everyone / everybody if the sentence is about people.

It can also mean all of them if the group is already clear from context. Norwegian often uses alle by itself as the subject, without needing an extra word like people or them.

So Alle kom uskadd hjem can mean either:

• Everyone got home unharmed
• They all got home unharmed

depending on the situation.

What form is kom?

Kom is the past tense of å komme, which means to come.

A few useful forms are:

• å komme = to come
• kommer = comes / is coming
• kom = came
• har kommet = has/have come

So in this sentence, kom tells you that the event happened in the past.

Why is kom placed right after alle?