Breakdown of Jag ville fråga om du har flera silkespapper.
jag
I
du
you (singular)
ha
to have
vilja
to want to
flera
several
fråga
to ask
om
if, whether
silkespappret
the tissue paper
Questions & Answers about Jag ville fråga om du har flera silkespapper.
Why use the past tense ville when the speaker is asking the question right now?
Using the past tense (ville) for a present desire makes the question softer and more polite. This is a common way to show pragmatic politeness in Swedish, and it works exactly like saying 'I wanted to ask' instead of 'I want to ask' in English.
Is om always the right word for 'if'?
In the context of an indirect yes/no question like this, om is the correct word. It works just like 'if' or 'whether' in English. You also use om for conditions (like 'If it rains...'), but note that 'if' cannot always be translated to om in other specific phrasing contexts, though it covers both 'whether' and 'in case of' nicely here.
Can flera also mean 'more' in this sentence?
Yes! flera is used for countable nouns and can mean either 'several' or 'more'. Depending on the situation, the speaker might be asking if you have several tissue papers, or if you simply have more of them. For uncountable nouns (like water or coffee), you would use mer instead.
Why doesn't the plural noun silkespapper have a plural ending?
silkespapper is a compound word ending in papper, which is an ett-word ending in a consonant (ett papper). In Swedish, ett-words that end in a consonant look exactly the same in the indefinite plural as they do in the singular. The -s- in the middle is just a joining letter to glue silke (silk) and papper together.
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