#47 Infinitive and present tense: the explanation you were waiting for!

Podcast: The Norwegian puzzle - find your missing pieces · Silje Linn Moss

Opublikowano: 2026-07-21

That one little choice between infinitive and present tense van be tricky. We sit down and untangle the confusion from the ground up, because most learners were taught a shortcut that works… until it doesn’t. If you’ve ever stared at a verb and thought, “Do I add R or not?” this is the reset you need. We explain what infinitive really is: the dictionary form that sits outside time. Once you understand that, the sentence logic gets simpler. You hear why infinitives usually cannot follow a subject directly, how an infinitive phrase can act like a noun, an...