"Älgen äter ett äpple."

Translation: The moose is eating an apple.

[kenziefawt]

so älgen is pronounced "alyen" ?

[LangAddict]

Basically it's "alien" with a slight change of accents

[SusieLloyd]

Sometimes it allows either simple present (eats) or progressive (is eating) and sometimes it marks either as wrong. There appears to be no pattern which it wants then, and either makes sense. Are there rules about which is right when?

[SwedishSucks]

You must have encountered some kind of bug. Swedish doesn't distinguish between simple present and proggressive present, they're the exact same verb in Swedish. For example, en hund dricker vatten = a dog drinks water = a dog is drinking water

[aggieevan]

I suppose in English we're supposed to assume moose is singular, not plural.

[KeesKiwi]

You can tell it's singular because it says "the moose eats" instead of "the moose eat". :)

[Lisa451586]

What is a moose?

[SusieLloyd]

It's a big four legged animal that lives in the forest, like an elk. Has wide horns

[SasikanthR2]

Nice

[TheCheese321]

Totally forgot what word was meant to be and just typed alien coz thats what sounded like. Duolingo gave me a sympathy correct mark for it still

[jacob738094]

Sudden mental block, has äter always been spelled with the the "ä"? I remember it being ater from previous questions

[Lorenzo403641]

Yes