"Drenge spiser brød."
Translation:Boys eat bread.
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I'm finding it really difficult to hear the difference in pronunciation in dreng, drenge and drengen. They all sound the exact same to me, even though I know they mean different things! Same with brød/brødet, vand/vanden etc. Anyone have any advice on how to hear the differences better?
Thanks runem, that's a very helpful link. Although even with the help of forvo I'm still struggling to hear the difference between brød and brødet - hopefully I'll get it one day!
About brød: I feel that when natives say "brød" you hear a really soft "d" at the end, while with "brødet" you hear even less. At least this is my impression from listening to Forvo.
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You'll start to hear the difference as time goes on. The great thing about the Scandinavian languages is that they are some what similar. For example. Jeg er en mand (Danish) and Jag är en man (Swedish) are very similar. However, they sound very different a lot of word can be read and written the same. It's just the same for Norwegian. If you learn one you should be able to learn them all.
Brwott...imagine and say as if the r is followed by a w. Same as in German.
The secreat about danish pronunciation is think you have a toad in your mouth...
can someone please tell me the rule for plural? a boy: en dragen...boys: drage?
"Drage" means "dragon" and "dragen" means "the dragon"
To turn "boy" into "boys" in Danish, you turn "dreng" into "drenge". Here is a post copied from a grammar book on plural endings in Danish
Drengen is the boy, en dreng is a boy drenge is boys (e at the end is like the s at the end in english. E.g drenge is boys, drengene is the boys)
I think it would be a nice add to have an option for explanation about the grammatics (a=en/et, brød/brødet, etc.).
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I could swear that in other sentences the "sp" isn't pronounced like it is in German (i.e. "shp"). What should it be: "s" or "sh" ?
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It is an aveolar S, produced further back in the mouth than a dental S. There are more languages with this alveolar kind of S sound, for instance Standard Castilian Spanish and also Greek - and don't forget the Netherlands (or more precisely: part of that country, not everywhere).
so dreng is "boy" , drengen is "the boy" and drenge is "boys" then how do they say "the boys" ?
As regards pronunciation - it seems a short "a" becomes a short "e" and vice versa! That seems a bit perverse, doesn't it? But since I'm English, I admit I don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to complaining about bizarre pronunciation! It still interests me, nonetheless.
Good evening. I have been unable to complete the egg and juice correction because the program will not accept my non-Danish writing of this word egg, though it has accepted it at other times. Please advise.
You're in the wrong sentence discussion, but you're hitting a snag because the language rule that should allow "ae" to substitute Æ is misfiring and has been for a long time. It's not an easy fix. You can find ways to circumvent it here: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/44563818
And you can make a bug report with a screenshot of the problem here: https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new