Viele Leute werden dir sagen, dass du das nicht hättest tun sollen.

English Translation

A lot of people are going to tell you that you shouldn’t have done that.

Could the main verb also come at the end, as “…tun sollen hattest”? (Sorry, no umlaut on keyboard)

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There is an almost seminal explanation of this special word order by pitti42 here:

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you can type “ae” as “ä”, same for “oe=ö, ue =ü”

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Of course. Thanks for reminding me. Spelling was the only subject I flunked in grade school. Now I’m spelling English words as if they’re German. It continues.