"Ni är män."
Translation:You are men.
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Ni can technically refer to the formal singular you in Swedish (like Sie in German or vous in French), but in practice it has fallen almost entirely out of use and is archaic to the point of being perceived as weird or even rude.
Du always means the singular you.
Ni in practice always means the plural you.
The letter a in Swedish is pronounced /ɑː/ long and /a/ short.
The letter ä in Swedish is pronounced /ɛː/ long and /ɛ/ short.
In other words, a is like the vowel in thought or car. ä is like the vowel in bet or then.
You can usually tell if a vowel is long or short by how many consonants are in front of it: long vowels will have one consonant, short ones will have two. Thus:
en mat (a food)
/mɑːt/
matt (listless, dull)
/matː/
en häl (a heel)
/hɛːl/
en häll (a flat rock)
/hɛlː/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Vowels
[2019/05/06]
If you don't know the first word... Look at which word starts with a big letter