Breakdown of Hon skulle inte ha ångrat beslutet om hon hade agerat annorlunda.
hon
she
inte
not
ha
to have
om
if, whether
skulle
would
beslutet
the decision
ångra
to regret
agera
to act
annorlunda
differently
Questions & Answers about Hon skulle inte ha ångrat beslutet om hon hade agerat annorlunda.
Why do we use skulle ha ångrat and hade agerat in this sentence?
This sentence describes an unreal situation in the past, meaning something that did not actually happen. To express this, the main clause uses skulle ha plus the supinum form ångrat (would have regretted), and the om (if) clause uses the past perfect hade plus the supinum form agerat (had acted).
Why is inte placed between skulle and ha ångrat?
In a main clause, a sentence adverb like inte (not) must go immediately after the first conjugated verb. Here, that first verb is skulle, so inte splits the verb phrase, coming right before ha ångrat.
What happens to the word order if we start the sentence with the om clause instead?
If you start with the om clause (Om hon hade agerat annorlunda...), that entire clause counts as the first block of information. Because Swedish main clauses use the V2 rule (the verb must be in the second position), the main verb skulle must come right after the comma: ...skulle hon inte ha ångrat beslutet.
Does the word annorlunda change its ending depending on what it describes?
Why does the word for decision end in -et here (beslutet)?
The root noun is ett beslut (a decision). Because it is an ett word that ends in a consonant, it takes the suffix -et to become the definite form beslutet (the decision).
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