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How would one pronounce the words "Jag" and "är" together? What I am hearing on the audio is "Jaw" without any attempt to pronounce the second word at all.
The automated audio is kinda bad at this one. Google Translate is doing a little better job: https://translate.google.com/#sv/en/jag%20%C3%A4r%20en%20flicka In normal speech, it's pronounced /'jɑː eː/ and that might throw you off, since it's two vowels after each other and thus forming a diphthong.
Yea, I checked the comments just to ask what is going on with the audio. I didn't know it was automated... I do not think it should be there then, if it pronounces the words badly. I thought I can trust the audio on Duolingo :( I did with other languages, which pronun. of words here I could not verify, while with Swedish I grasped some of it while being in Scandinavia.
Both mean "a" or "an", but "en" corresponds to the Common gender while "ett" corresponds to the Neuter gender.
Let's compare to German:
Der/Ein Mann - Masculine
Die/Eine Frau - Feminine
Das/Ein Kind - Neuter
(En) Mann(en) - Common
(En) Kvinna(n) - Common
(Ett) Barn(et) - Neuter
Each word has a gender associated with it. For example apple is an et-word, while orange is an en-word. So it would be: "ett äpple" (an apple) and "en apelsin" (an orange).
On my keyboard, I can hold left-alt and press 0228
ä = 0228
å = 0229
ö = 0246
Fortunately my native language is Portuguese and we have the ¨ accent in our keyboard. :)
For me you have to press and hold, but if you have an iPhone i have no idea how
with apple devices it's much the same. press the letter and all the ways to type that letter show up.
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är means 'make' in sentences like Två och två är fyra 'Two and two make four'. But in most cases är just means 'am, are, is'.
So, is the "g" in Jag pronounced or is it silent, or does is depend? I hear it while listening to the whole sentence but not when I listen to the word alone.
devalanteriel answered this below.
Question: Is the "g" in "Jag" pronounced?
Answer: No, usually not.
All Swedish nouns have a gender - en or ett. It's just like Spanish has un and una, for instance - but with the difference that Swedish genders are strictly grammatical and have nothing to do with biological gender.
Why does the word "Är" sound like the letter r in the audio, but other words with an umlaut A, like "Äter", or "Äpple" sound more like eh. Am I supposed to pronounce "Är" more like "air"?
Suddenly this one does not accept "i am a girl" as a right answer. Small I was not a problem before
It'd be helpful if Duolingo added a "tips" section to each module like they do with other languages.
There is one, actually, but it doesn't show in mobile. You can access all notes through a desktop browser, or on the unofficial website Duome: https://duome.eu/tips/en/sv
Ooo, thank you very much! I've only used Duolingo on my phone, so that makes sense. Thank you for linking me to the Swedish tips. Now I can check the tips for the other languages I'm learning, too! :)
