"Jag är en flicka."
Translation:I am a girl.
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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.
Well most people just don't pronounce the G in Jag and so they just say "Ja är" while other people might pronounce it as "Ja e".
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).
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.
At the start of this language course, I think you should pronunce the G. Without the G, it turns into the Swedish word for "Yes". However in everyday conversation the G in "Jag" tends to become silent. If you're not putting extra emphasis on that particular word. As far as I know, the only reason for "the silence of the G" (in this case), is that in a sentece it will decrease the prenunciation effort. Resulting in a slightly better flow. With total disregard for struggling language learners. Pronuncing the G in jag is never wrong, but could be perceived as "less relaxed".
Usually it isn't pronounced since it is easier to just not pronounce it, but when speaking slowly, it is pronounced.
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.
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'.
Jag sounds more like "Yag", do not walk around and say "Yo" because that is wrong :)
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
Im new to swedish i just started but earlier it said what i put was correct now it says the same thing but wrong
I love the Swedish language but oooo the get yr heard around the 'ett' & 'en' words..
