"Jag är en flicka."
Translation:I am a girl.
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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.
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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.
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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
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No, how do you type it? I think of the pronunciation of the letter as like the Canadian "eh".
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That's just for this word, though. The pronunciation of the letter itself is not the same. You should have a look at the alphabet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-JDHEIvxgQ
On an an english keyboard you get ä by alt+0228. The easier way would be to set up an alternate keyboard layout for swedish so you can easily switch between a swedish keyboard layout and an english keyboard layout. That way while you are studying you can use the swedish layout the leave it on the english layout for everything else. I have it set up this way on Windows 8, but it should be possible on macs as well.
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devalanteriel - In this particular audio I can definietly hear the "g", unlike on other examples were it is totally silent.
I don't doubt that but it's usually not pronounced in practice. Doing so is not wrong, either, though.
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devalanterial - Thanks for being like my personal Swedish mentor/coach! I know I wine and complain a lot about the pronunciation of the TTS software of this course, but thanks for not giving up on me and still sticking around!
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Do i have to pronounce it "Yo (without g sound) ar(with certain rrr sound like french) flickya"???