No. 17 in Norwegian
hadde
"Hadde" means "had" in English.
In a sentence
Hun hadde en katt.
She had a cat.
The word 'hadde' is used in the past tense to indicate possession that occurred in the past.
Om jeg bare hadde visst det!
If only I had known that!
Here, 'hadde' functions as part of a conditional past tense, expressing a hypothetical situation that did not occur.
Han hadde allerede spist da jeg kom hjem.
He had already eaten when I arrived home.
In this sentence, 'hadde' is used as an auxiliary verb to form the past perfect tense, indicating that an action was completed before another past action.
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