"Børnene spiser kødet."

Translation: The children are eating the meat.

[dpchalmers]

I thought I saw a j. Needless to say, children =/= bears.

[rcbgato]

i also heard bjornen, and bears do eat meat so...

[SkyOwlKey]

Uuuggghhh. I got this wrong on listening because I STILL can't hear the difference between "kød" and "kødet".
Does anyone have any hints??

[Chucklenuts7]

I didn't hear it at first, but I thought to go to some Danish livestreams whenever I had time so I could train my ears. That worked for me.

[Willowfae]

Why does 'the children' not follow the normal pattern? Barn - barnet - bornene?

[runem]

It's irregular, like too many nouns in many languages are :)

Et barn - Barnet - Børn - Børnene

(singular, definite, plural, plural definite)

[RowanM.1]

How would they get any pudding if they didn't eat their meat?

[Chucklenuts7]

Replacing meat with flesh makes the people involved sound so savage.
"The children eat flesh."

[alexfengming]

Children in denmark must be wild

[LukePayne16]

Really struggling with when it's "the meat" vs "meat"

[KyleJDahl]

When is 'kød' steak and not meat?

[justsayin12]

sounds like bear!

[JudithEddison]

I'm still hearing a "j" sound in children and can't distinguish it from "bears. Should there be a j sound or is it a software problem?

[EntropicJade]

I hear no j, maybe it's because you expect an 'o' sound but the 'ø' sound is slightly different.

[FransRoggen]

is there a grammar og vocabular that can be studied?

[MMR_LM]

Having a problem between distinguishing "Child" and "Bear" any help?

[GraydonVan]

I mean børnene spiser kødet.

[Shadow557473]

Bears....I wrote bears eat meat. oh well

[Helle384474]

Oh no I always miss definitive suffixes

[Abu_Rakan]

barn = child

et barn = a child

barnet = the child

børn = children

børnene = the children

[Pinancassdan]

So i just listened to this and got a male voice, first time ever, done this for almost 80 days straight and its always been female. Also my first exercise of the day, wonder if theyre all gonna have a new voice or just this

[Smoothbishop]

I suppose, the children eat meat should equally be correct.

[Pinancassdan]

No, 'kodet' (excuse my spelling, I don't have Danish letters on this keyboard) means 'the meat'. And while it may not be the most natural sounding sentence in the world it is what they are testing you on. They want you to identify the difference when it ends in -et or -en.

[HaniaH3]

Bjørnene spiser børnene!