Word
Uavhengig av om forskuddet kom, står utlegget og hjemkomsttidspunktet i reiseregningen.
Meaning
Regardless of whether the advance arrived, the expense and return time are listed in the travel expense claim.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Uavhengig av om forskuddet kom, står utlegget og hjemkomsttidspunktet i reiseregningen.
komme
to come
i
in
og
and
stå
to say (in writing)
Questions & Answers about Uavhengig av om forskuddet kom, står utlegget og hjemkomsttidspunktet i reiseregningen.
What does uavhengig av mean, and how is it used here?
Uavhengig av means independent of or, more naturally in English, regardless of.
In this sentence, uavhengig av om forskuddet kom means:
regardless of whether the advance came/arrived
It introduces something that does not affect the main statement. In other words, whether the advance was received or not, the rest of the sentence still applies.
Why does the sentence use om and not hvis?
Here, om means whether, not if in the conditional sense.
- om = whether
- hvis = if for a condition
After uavhengig av, Norwegian normally uses om:
- uavhengig av om forskuddet kom = regardless of whether the advance arrived
Using hvis here would sound less natural or wrong in standard usage, because the sentence is not really setting up a condition. It is saying that the main point is true no matter which of two possibilities is the case.
Why is kom in the past tense?