"Jag äter ett äpple."

Translation: I eat an apple.

[GrandApple]

Jag is pronounced like yoh?

[Amphibian]

Sounds more like yaw

[cHello24]

Jag should be pronounced with a Y sound and a long a..Yawgh

[Isaac_Luna_]

I'd say it sounds sort of like yoah, somewhere between your and Amphibian's answer

[TheGandalf]

A British "your", I assume?

EDIT: Nevermind. I thought you were saying "jag" is pronounced sort of like "your".

[JonahGynn]

Nope its pronounced like youg

[mewall21]

Its a challenge for me to pronounce all the 't's in this sentence like the audio does.

[hank.leigh]

Definitely the hardest sentence so far. The rhythmic stress is difficult for me to get down fluently.

[KxngDeo.]

So are en and ett like masculine and feminine type of words similar to romance languages?

[JonEnMiljon]

Yes, it's a bit like that... 'en' words are called common gender (Swe: 'en-ord' or 'utrum' or 'reale'), and 'ett' words are neutral gender (Swe: 'ett-ord' or 'neutrum'). The common gender is a fusion of once existing masculine and feminine genders, a simplification that took place in the late middle ages (the three gender system remain in a couple of very special dialects with few speakers, though). 75-80% of all nouns are in the common gender but unfortunately there are not a lot of rules out there to make it easier to decide if a word is an en-ord or ett-ord...

[babysbreath8]

so jag sounds yah or yaw or yo?
im korean
and i think it sounds like mostly yah and somethimes yag(in eng sounds)

[Zmrzlina]

It's a long A-sound rather than an O-sound, but the Swedish long A is different from what's common in English, German, Italian or other comparisons. The A-sound in English "far" or "bar" is about it.

[Adam75440]

It should be translated "I am eating an apple"

[NanaM3]

I'm not sure if it is actually ''I eat'', because i still think it's ''I ate''

[Zmrzlina]

It is "I eat".

"I ate" is "jag åt".

[NanaM3]

now it does make more sense, thanks! :)

[harthacanute]

Where can I find conjugations of Swedish verbs?

[Zmrzlina]

Here: http://www.verbix.com/languages/swedish.shtml

[Noaghi]

Is it like in French, in which we can use the infinitive verbs to mean a continuous situation?

Just like "Je mange" - I eat/I am eating.

[Zmrzlina]

I think you mean the present tense rather than the infinitive (which is manger), but the answer is yes. Swedish doesn't differ between present simple and present continuous the way English does.

[Alireza174901]

The combination of äter and ett is hard! What is the correct format f9r äter?

[RidwanHihi]

so, en is for persson and ett is for object?

[Zmrzlina]

More or less, but there is no rule to it and it has to be learned with every noun.

[SalmanBinHabib]

what is the past tense of ater or swedish of ate?

[Zmrzlina]

Åt.

[floppet]

What's the difference between ett and en?

[Zmrzlina]

Each noun is either en or ett and it has to be learned with the word.

[Ben756416]

Shoulden "Jag äter ett äpple" be i am (i'm) eating an apple

[sotnosen93]

That's one possible translation.

[VoidWalker5]

So is the sentence structure the same as English?

[HastaLaVista83]

For this sentence yes.

[LisaGannon]

I find it spoken very fast and hard to get the pronunciation right im only starting to learn the language

[Dantekunito]

Can "Jag äter ett äpple" mean both "I eat an apple" and "I am eating an apple"?

[JonEnMiljon]

Yes. For example:
"I eat an apple every day" = "Jag äter ett äpple varje dag".
"I'm eating an apple right now" = "Jag äter ett äpple just nu"

[Emzteel]

The translation should be in verb form, eg. I'm eating an apple

[ddeeznoz]

Its supposed to be I am eating an apple