"Drengene læser en avis."
Translation:The boys are reading a newspaper.
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Only verbs conjugate. They are the different 'inflections' of the noun 'dreng'. Besides, you didn't really answer the OP's question. To OP (I know it's a bit late, but hopefully this helps others), try looking up the words on forvo.com and listen to them carefully. I guess in connected speech, the ending of the words might get swallowed up (which the Danes do very often) so you will probably have to figure out which is which by the context.
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Quite tricky trying to get used to the irregular plural spelling for 'men and 'boys'.
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In case anyone is too young or doesn't remember in the old days the news used to come written on paper and then delivered to houses, often by children or teenagers, so that's what a newspaper is.
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It's the same spelling with "drengen" and "drengene"? I hear them both as the same.
There's a little difference between the pronunciation of each of them, probably everybody should have noticed it.
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Is there a difference in pronunciation between "drengene" and "dreng"?
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Try going on Forvo.com and looking up the words pronounced by native speakers. The TTS does not do a good job distinguishing the two.
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Yes, læser can mean "read", "are reading", etc. The verb doesn't require modifications to reflect changes in tense.
