"Ik slaap naast veertien honden."
Translation:I am sleeping next to fourteen dogs.
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Any particular reason that the first vowel is vier is not the same as in veertien ?
I'm not sure of the linguistic reason behind this, but I just know that that rule follows. I learned Afrikaans second language and the same rule applies so any 'four' with a suffix. It's 'vier' for 'four' and then 'veer' for '-tien' and '-tig'
No none. Think of 'four' and 'forty.' 'Forty' also drops a letter yet we pronounce it the same.
There is a difference in pronunciation, have a look at this website and listen to vier and veer http://www.heardutchhere.net/DutchPronunciation.html
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Hmm, 'vier' and 'veer-' have definitely a different vowel in them. 'Forty' is also a short o and four is long.
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I don't really agree with what you're saying about "four" and "fourty" in English. As a native speaker I pronounce them both the same (no difference in vowel length).
Might be dialectal, Siobhan. In my "accent" the difference between four and forty is very very small, but it's there.
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Four: /fɔː/
Fourty: /ˈfɔːti/
So, it's always a long o.
Source: Cambridge's English Pronouncing Dictionary, by Daniel Jones.
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The verb here is slapen, which is slaap (no -t); naast means "next to" and isn't conjugated.
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How is the "d" in "honden" pronounced? Here it sounds like a "d" while it sounds like an "l" in other Duo lessons.
It shouldn't ever be an l I don't think...maybe a limitation of the software. The d at the end of hond can get devoiced to t but in the middle of honden it should stay d.
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I know for honderd it sounds like an l. But i wonder still about hond Thanks for your input.
I said "I sleep..." instead of "I am sleeping..." and it counted it wrong. I thought these are both "Ik slaap..."