"Jij eet peper."

Translation: You are eating pepper.

[johaquila]

Note that this is actually pepper, the spice that comes as black or white dried berries to be ground in a peppermill, not peppers, the vegetable typically available in the traffic light colours.

Given the confusion in English, I think it's not ideal that the first sentence where this word appears (at least for me) sets up a context that points to the wrong translation.

[rowschank]

Isn't the traffic light vegetable called "Capsicum" or "Bell Pepper" and not just "pepper"?

[WarmFoothills]

I know them as bell peppers, yes. In the Netherlands these are called paprika.

[rowschank]

Isn't Paprika the spice made from Bell Pepper?

[WarmFoothills]

In English, yes. In Dutch it's called paprikapoeder. Poeder means powder.

[temporalthings]

It's also just "pepper" to many British English speakers I know, including me.

[OsoGegenHest]

No. We don't go around confusing these words in English. Piper nigrum is the uncountable noun "pepper"; capsicum is the countable nouns "pepper(s)". It's almost impossible to construct an English sentence where they are confused.

[deactivated user]

I am quite flustered as to why Je doesn't work...

[johaquila]

In a dictation you are supposed to hear which it is. Since the fast voice mispronounces jij as je, use the slow voice to find out which it really is.

[WarmFoothills]

The fast voice doesn't really mispronounce jij and je. I can distinguish them easily.

[catiriveros]

jij sound more like yay.. and je sound more like jih

[SophieNels]

it sounds like the audio is saying, " you eat paper" XD