"Kvinnan äter bröd."
Translation:The woman is eating bread.
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I think that a bit more grammar on en and ett words and how to put a definite artice and plurals would be nice :)
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What's grammar? This is Swedish...... :-) En pojke (a boy) Pojken (the boy) Pojkar (boys) Pojkarna (the boys)
En flicka (a girl) Flickan (the girl) Flickor (girls) Flickorna (the girls)
Ett bord (a table) Bordet (the table) Bord (tables) Borden (the tables)
I think they meant explanations in the lesson notes. But you're replying to a post that is three years old, by a user who hasn't really been active since then, so it's hard to say. :)
You should remember the words with ett because there's no rules for it.its just 70% en words and 30% ett words..it comes with times
So I said 'the woman eats bread' and it said it's correct, but the translation would be 'is eating', is there no distinction between those?
"The woman is eating bread" should be an acceptable translation of "Kvinnan äter bröd" as there is no distinction between 'eats' and 'is eating'.
It is an accepted answer. Maybe something else went wrong if it wasn't accepted for you.
Yes, R's are usually trilled in Swedish (although there are exceptions). It does depend on what part of the country you're in, though. For example, in Skåne (Scania) the R more closely resembles the French R.
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Can someone please help me with the ö pronunciation in bröd?. I don't fully understand how you say it.
There's no such sound in English, this will help:
To me it sounds like the oo in book. That may be wrong, but thats what I hear.
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Found a bit of a list on Forvo for the pronounciation of "bröd". Still that list doesn't include all variations...
A woman is Kvinnan or Kvinna? Earlier on some question it said that it was Kvinna and know I don't know
I learned that "kvinnan = the woman", but this time tranlate said " kivinnan = the lady" and my answer was not correct....
'the lady' is another accepted answer, but 'the woman' is the default answer. The machine tries to match your input to what it thinks is the closest accepted answer, but sometimes it goes wrong. It was probably reacting to something else in your answer.
I think, since in Swedish there is no distiction between the simple present (eats), and the present continious tense (is eating), the translation of the "kvinnan äter"-type sentences must be approved in both forms (The woman eats, The woman is eating
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Yes, both "The woman eats..." and "The woman is eating..." should be valid translations of "Kvinnan äter..." (and the other way around as well).
This is so nice application. I speak finnish, so this is maybe wrong write.
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kvinna = woman
kvinnan = the woman
Many languages use definite articles, but Swedish use endings instead. These endings differ (based on old grammatical declensions partly lost in the language today), so the easiest way to learn them is probably to memorise the whole pattern for each new word.
woman = kvinna (singular, undefined)
the woman = kvinnan (singular, defined)
women = kvinnor (plural, undefined)
the women = kvinnorna (plural, defined)
The pattern shown here (-a, -an, -or, -orna) is one of three patterns used for feminine nouns in ancient Swedish (though there were 8 forms at that time) and "girl" (flicka) follows the same pattern (flicka, flickan, flickor, flickorna). "Wife" (fru) on the other hand doesn't... (fru, frun, fruar, fruarna) That's why learning the pattern for each individual word really pays off in the end.
I thought i was learning Hawaiian but i noticed i was learning new Swedish words.
U know guys Swedish n Germany has same similar word likes bread in germany is Brood n swedish is bröd. Am I just know bout this before?