Learn Swedish: Jag vet att jag skulle ha tvekat om du inte hade kommit. - I know that I would have hesitated if you had not come.

This sentence uses the unreal past conditional. It pairs skulle ha + a supine verb (tvekat) for the "would have" part, with om + hade + a supine verb (kommit) for the "if" part. This structure describes a hypothetical situation in the past that didn't actually happen.

Why is inte placed before hade in om du inte hade kommit?

Because om du inte hade kommit is a subordinate clause (a supporting phrase that cannot stand alone as a sentence). In Swedish subordinate clauses, sentence adverbs like inte must always come before the first verb. This is often taught as the BIFF rule. In a regular main clause, it would be du hade inte kommit.

What verb forms are tvekat and kommit?

They are the supine forms of the verbs tveka (to hesitate) and komma (to come). In Swedish, you must always use the supine form after any variation of the helper verb "to have", which in this sentence includes both ha and hade.

Do Swedes actually pronounce every word in skulle ha tvekat?