"Just nu hittade jag en mening som jag *förstår*, men inte helt. Jag vet betydelsen, men vet inte varför meningen använder ordet "ska". Här: "Sammanlagt ska det ha funnits 71 döda människor i lastbilen." (Jag vet att det här är lite obehagligt...) Varför kan man inte säga "sammanlagt det ha funnits..." Vad gör "ska" här? " By using "ska det ha" in a sentence like this, it sounds like the news are somewhat unreliable. It is not certain that it's the talked about amount/the same place and so on. An English translation would roughly be: "In total, (it's been reported that) there were 71 dead people in the truck.". It would be wrong to just say "sammanlagt det ha funnits...". That equates to "it in total have existed..." which makes no sense. Another thing to make a note of is that "why" is spelled varför, not värför :)