"Kvinnan älskar mannen."
Translation:The woman loves the man.
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I sometimes turn on my "English mind" so then I start to confuse the "du" and "dig" but then I remember that there's also a subject form of "you" in my native language :DDD
It's funny I always hear kvinna instead of kvinnan, is it me or they sound nearly the same and we have to determine which one to use by context?
Well, since the only difference is the -n at the end they will sound very much alike. Natives will hear the difference though.
As an American who has studied German and now some of this, I can hear it. Practice makes perfect friend.
It's just funny to learn these phrases that would only be used to answer a specific comment or question in English. I only refer to someone as "The -something" when being funny or sarcastic. Same for Swedish?
i HAVE to skip each " type what you hear " not becuase i just cant do it.... i cant HEAR it!! im only 10, and sense i have to skip " type what you hear " i get mad and sad ( smad ) and just turn it off and lose ALL my progress!!! and it took a lot of time to make it to level 3!!
Have you tried the slow version? I do that with Danish sometimes and it normally helps :).
If trying out the slow version doesn't wprk out for you, there's always the option of disabling sound in your settings. Assuming that this is still a problem, that is.
Well, the comment to which you replied is over four years old, but still, it's good advice. :)
Is it pronouncing Kvinnan right? Shouldn't the first consonant be pronounced like an "f"?
elsker and elskar is both wrong, it's always älskar in the present tense.
I took "I hear..." to mean that OP was asking about the speaker's pronunciation of älskar using a rough English transcription of the sounds, not that they thought the verb should be written with an e- instead of an ä-.
If the audio features 2 slightly different pronunciations of the '-skar' part of the word, it's fair for a learner who wants to pronounce the language correctly to ask here which sound they should consider right.
I can't type special foreign letters on my phone's keyboard. Or, maybe I just don't know how?
You mean 'å, ä, ö'? You can find it in your keyboard's settings (Languages and input or something like that)
You use "likes" for when the third-person singular, "like" for everybody else:
- I like
- You like
- He/She/It likes
- We like
- You like
- They like
I wish that every question was that simple to answer. Especially when it comes to Swedish grammar / syntax / prepositions etc. :D
It's possible you had a typo, or the system did something wrong. Going through the question again usually helps.
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I just can't understand that it shows present tense or progressive tense. Can you help me guys? Actually, the verb "to love" generally used in present tense but I'm having hard times to distinguish differences.