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It is never pronounced as an m, but maybe the TTS is slightly unclear here. Hear a native speaker say it here: http://sv.forvo.com/search-sv/brev/
Well now I know I'm not going crazy... Not quite sure how I should pronounce it!
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Sounds more like bre-en to me, I'm thinking it might be a acoustic illusion, we're not used to hearing that combination of sounds together so our brains creates the sound that would most naturally occur together in whatever languages we usually speak.
Oops, I posted the same question just now .... before noticing your post from 5 years ago - Ha!
The word Hogwarts when British saying it sound like awkward for me an indonesian. This always happen when i try to make voice chat with them.
Grammatical gender. Each noun is either en or ett and you'll have to learn which is which.
Its gender? I thought Ett was "an" and En was "a". Thats how its been with almost every other word
But i heard 'du ar ett brev' am i wrong guys or the narrator is a bit confusing
The text-to-speech pronounces it very unnaturally, but I hear the h in there
It does, I'm with you. If you were speaking to someone they would understand what you were saying.
you have to listen to the context, and in most cases "har" will always sound as "ar".
Du = singular You (one person). Ni = plural You (more than one person). "Ni" can also be used as singular in formal or polite occasions, but that is old-fashioned.
"Ni" as formal singular is not old-fashioned, but a misunderstanding made by several younger people in Sweden. It was rather used to mark class differences and create distance between people and we have worked hard to get rid of it.
In the 1960s and 70s there was a "du-reform" in Sweden where all people started to say "du" to each other to improve equality in society. Recently, influence from other European languages has made young Swedes believe that "ni" was used in the same way as "vous" in French or "Sie" in German, but the emotions for "ni" have never really been quite the same.
You should not try to use "ni" as formal you since many older people in Sweden may feel offended.
I like the last information about we should not try to use ni as formal. I should remeber that. I dont want to get slapped by them just because of misunderstanding.
Thank you for the very interesting comment! I love to hear about the history and social context of the languages I'm learning too!
Du and De are indistinguishable on this computer generated audio.. it's awful.
Could you help me?
Where can I looking for words? For example, what you wrote. "brev"-/bre:v/
I would like to see all of the words, what I learnt here :)
Update: I found this: http://lexin.nada.kth.se/lexin/#searchinfo=both,swe_swe,man; I understand only one thing... How I write a word when I try to speak... It is enough to me:)
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I found this one. It seems that it is not yet finished, but looks authentic. http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/
Or you can check Wiktionary for meanings. :)
this quality of the soud is very bad this time. Is this also part of the excercise, Swedish is a language where sound is much more important. my eyes are bad my ears are very good
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Sometimes the u can get a little 'tightened' towards the end and you can hear something like a v sound there, but this is in no way compulsory.
“Ni” is the plural “you”, “Du” is singular – like the old English pronouns thou and ye.
As far as I know, there is no real rule to it. You just have to learn on a case-by-case basis I'm afraid.
Just like how you have to remember in Spanish whether a word is masculine or feminine and takes el or la, in Swedish you have to remember whether a word is common or neuter and takes n or t.
Can anyone explain why its "an letter" and not "a letter"? En brev sounds correct but its always ett brev
Idk why, but i said the corect answer for 3 time but it said it is not the corect answer The corect answer is..... but also my answer looked actually like the corect answer that duolingo said
Is it just me, or does it sound like she's pronouncing it "breen" ??? Not hearing the "v" at all ....
Who says "You have got..."? Sure there are dialects where you'd say "you've got..." instead of "you have", but would any of those actually in written English write down "you have got..."?
Listen either define clearly the difference between ett and en. I am sick of it constantly saying I am wrong when I am literally learning from my mistakes.
