Breakdown of De hade renderat dinosaurien som vi tittade på.
vi
we
de
they
titta på
to look at
ha
to have
som
who / which / that (relative pronoun)
rendera
to render
dinosaurien
the dinosaur
Questions & Answers about De hade renderat dinosaurien som vi tittade på.
Is renderat just a direct loanword from English, and how do we conjugate it?
Yes, rendera is borrowed from English, mostly used in computer graphics or IT. It is a regular Group 1 verb, which means it takes an -ar ending in the present tense, -ade in the past, and -at in the supine form used here with hade.
What is the base form of dinosaurien, and why does it end in -ien here?
Why is the preposition på placed at the very end of the sentence?
Swedish allows preposition stranding at the end of relative clauses, just like English does. Because the relative pronoun som refers back to the dinosaur we were looking at, the preposition på belongs to the verb tittade but gets left at the end of the clause. Trying to force it earlier would sound highly unnatural.
Why use the past perfect hade renderat instead of just the past tense?
The past perfect (hade + supine) is used here to clarify the sequence of events. It shows that the action of rendering was fully completed before the second past action took place: they finished rendering the dinosaur before we were looking at it (tittade på).
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