"Vi äter mat."

Translation: We are eating food.

[rayray_2561]

Oh, I thought you were eating water and milk. My bad.

[Tigu_cz]

Is "mat" also "meal"? Or is it only "food"?

[Sycamore]

"mat" is more for food in general, "måltid" is closer to meal

[Tigu_cz]

Tack så mycket!

[ZolnaiDora]

Tack! this was very helpfull

[BirgitSunnanbo]

Meal = måltid

[Ute031163]

I hear: De äter mat

[RaymondElFuego]

I do too, and I'm swedish. Reported it. It actually sound like "ve eter mat".

[DeeWolens]

What would it be if they were saying they had already ate like 'we ate food earlier'?

[skalpadda]

Vi åt mat tidigare.

[spaceporn]

I keep hearing 'mot', isn't mat pronounced 'mah-t'?

[Katsube]

The Swedish "a" doesn't sound like the English "a". For example "mat" (the English word) with English pronunciation would be transcribed "mät" in Swedish if we would have a word with the same pronunciation as your "mat". So it's kind of correct as you say, but to us swedes it sounds like "mat" even though for English speaking people it may sound more like "mot".

[XxDarkEchoxx]

Same here, but i think mat id pronounched mot, not mah-t, i checked google translate and they said mot.

[thAbstract]

Why is "We are eating food." not correct?

I believe "Jag äter mat" = "I eat food" or "I am eating food", right?

Why wouldn't that apply to "Vi äter mat" as well?

[devalanteriel]

That actually is accepted. If you were marked wrong for it, I'm afraid you were the victim of a bug.

[lesliedawne]

how do you say "the food"? Maten?

[Lng52-._]

I think it is: "mat" = "food"; "maten" = "the food".

[Sandra02061965]

She says: dom äter mat

[devalanteriel]

Yes, that is how it's normally pronounced.

[jag-alskar-dig]

how would you say "we ate food", like, in the past tense?

[devalanteriel]

Vi åt mat.

[jag-alskar-dig]

tack så mycket

[BirgitSunnanbo]

When you are listening "vi" (= we) sounds like "de" (= they). I heard the same wrong pronunciation in some other places to. The pronununciation of "vi" is almost the same as the English word "we" except for the w is pronounced as "v"

[devalanteriel]

The pronunciations are actually finally going to be fixed, although I don't know exactly when.