"Kvinnen spiser et eple."
Translation:The woman is eating an apple.
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The slow speed threw me off since it sounded like it was saying "kvinne" rather than "kvinnen" - did anyone else have that problem?
_o/ They swallow many vowels, those norwegians... It takes some getting used to, but we'll get there.
The pronunciation of "kvinnen" is more like "kvinn-n," as many have noted.
There is none in Norwegian! just spiser. In English, eats is used with he/she/it. I eat, he eats. You walk, she walks.
In the Tips for Actions (https://www.duolingo.com/skill/nb/Actions/tips-and-notes), it says that the definite form of "the woman" is either kvinna or kvinnen. Why, then, when I say, "Kvinna spiser et eple" is it marked as incorrect, telling me I should use "kvinnen" instead?
I like one thing about Norwegian language. That it makes big sentences a lot small. And that is a very easy to understand thing. But there is also one thing which will take me time to answer. The places of different words.
No, it's also the correct translation. It is especially true when you add hver dag (every day) at the end.
Kvinnen spiser et eple hver dag.
Can I please ask why is "the woman eats an apple" incorrect? And if it is indeed incorrect, how would one say "the woman eats an apple" in Norwegian? Thank you in advance.
It shouldn't be wrong because Norwegian present tense doesn't distinguish whether an action is being performed right at that moment in time (Present Continuous) or habitually (Present Simple).
Kvinnen spiser et eple. - The woman eats an apple.
Kvinnen spiser et eple. - The woman is eating an apple.
'kvinne' is usually inflected as a masculine noun. You can use the feminine form, but it's uncommon. Please don't confuse the gender of a person with the gender of a noun :)
My anwer was totally correct it even matched to the answer given by doulingo
I put - "The women ate an apple." How do you know how to indicate what tense and what's the difference?
We're starting with present first. Past and other tenses come later. For now, understand that "spiser/spise" is "eats" or "is eating." If you're able to view Tips for each node along the tree (whether via desktop or on iOS), that should help you get your bearings a bit better.
I had did right yet they said it was wrong..perhaps cause i ddnt use a full stop at the end?
Always try to write sentences correctly (capitalisation and punctuation) to minimise the possibility of Duolingo marking your answers as wrong even though it can recognise typos which aren't grammatical mistakes as well.