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- "Jeg er en dreng."
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Is the audio right for this? All I can make out is 'jeg en dreng' - i.e. three syllables.
No. Not an allowed one, but in speech they're just contracted because they are mumbled/said so fast that you can't hear the difference. Usually if Danish people want to indicate missing words they use: ', like this: "Jeg' en dreng". Though this should not be used, since it's simply to indicate the very spoken nature of the sentence.
I don't see how that's any different than "gonna" in English, then, just by your explanation. "Gonna" isn't proper in English and it is just something we have adopted as a "written word" only because it conveys that mumbled nature. While gonna is not actually a contraction like "can't", it is still that mumbled rush/blend of two words much like this sentence, then right?
No. And yes. That is how you would say in Danish in real life, but I think the TTS should pronounce all the words. This can only be done with personal pronouns ending on a wovel sound:
- Jeg' ... = Jeg er
- Du' ... = Du er
- Det' ... = Det er
- Vi' ... = Vi er
- I' ... = I er
- De' ... = De er
Also with those non-(personal) pronouns:
- Her' = Her er
- Der' = Der er
This can therefore not be done with:
- Han er
- Hun er
- Den er