"The woman drinks water."

Translation: Kvinnan dricker vatten.

[bibacchant]

I like how one of the suggestions is "the woman drinks woman".

[ahjteam]

I agree. It would be better if it would be a word order thingy instead. "woman drinks water / woman water drinks" etc

[Sable_Feathers]

Does vatten have a definite or indefinite article?

[Berniebud]

"Vatten" is the word itself without any article. The definite would be "Vattnet".

[RamonAndre265865]

You're right, the water= vettnet, and water= vatten.

[Liggliluff]

*vattnet, almost correct :)

[BrandenVal]

What's the difference between the three "drinks"? Thanks. (ex. drycker)

[sterd]

"Dricker" is a verb: "drinking".
"Drinkar" is a noun: "drinks" (as in alcoholic drinks).
"Drycker" is a noun: "beverages" or drinkable liquids in general.

[narlyjames]

When do you say kvinna vs kvinnan? Also, does the ending of the word have to do with the article? Someone mentioned Kvinnan (which has en) and vattnet (which has ett, and is normally vatten)?

[exqeriment]

Kvinnan is definite, it means The woman.

[deactivated user]

Its so similar to german: drinker vatten-trinken wasser ;)

[mad__kitty]

Do verbs in Swedish ever get conjugated?

[Zmrzlina]

In tense, yes. But not in person.

[mad__kitty]

Thank you!

[ElifTuncel]

Does "Kvinnan dricker vatten." mean, "The woman is drinking water"? But here, translation's tense is present simple.

[Zmrzlina]

It means both. Swedish doesn't differ.

[lovefem]

what is difference between vatten and vatter

[Zmrzlina]

Vatten means water. Vatter doesn't mean anything, it's not a Swedish word.

[lovefem]

Thank you Zmrzlina.

[Ishel13]

Vatter means "father" in german

[stoyie]

It does not, Vater is father in German

[AddisonSta11]

I got everything right but it marked it wrong

[Arnauti]

There's a bug that does that sometimes :(
We're very sorry about that, it's been reported to Duo but evidently it's hard to fix.

[jasminethuree]

I used the word "tanten" instead of "kvinnan..." whoops

[RamonAndre265865]

Jag dricker vatten. Hej då.

[TheRealSamChaney]

Just a quick question on pronunciation. Sometimes driker sounds like "dee-ker" and sometimes like "dree-ker". When do you pronounce the "r" and when is it silent?

[devalanteriel]

The first r in dricker is never silent, although it may be somewhat faint depending on the speaker's dialect.

[JuanSegundo1]

Isn't it "Kvinnat dricker vatten"? Because the "ett" is the article used in female, and the "en" is the one used in male. Can someone solve me this question?

[OhBogy]

No its not ett kvinna, it is en kvinna, usually en means living thing, while ett means not living thing, however those two depend on the gender of the word.

[JuanSegundo1]

oh, i thought that "ett" was the feminin article and "en" was the masculin article of swedish. Maybe they are, i don't certainly know. However, it's a little strange to use a masculin article on the word that means woman...

[Berniebud]

Swedish doesn't have masculine or feminine grammatical genders.

Not sure where you got that idea.

The grammatical genders in Swedish are "Neuter" (Ett) and "Common" (En).

[OhBogy]

Oh that way, i thought swedish have three genders, like russian language has, im new to swedish, already know estonian, english and russian language, but already see similarities in swedish toward other languages i have learned. My previous comment was based on what i have observed in these courses so far.