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- "Jag är en flicka."
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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.
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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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'.
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"?
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