"Djuret äter."

Translation: The animal is eating.

[filiwian]

Is the d and j silent here ?

[Lundgren8]

Only the d- is. The letter combinations dj-, lj-, gj- and hj- are all pronounced as if they were j-.

[lizardbethh]

Thanks for that! The TTS sounded more like a dy sound than a j... :S

[Lundgren8]

Yes, I was talking about Swedish spelling.

Note that j- in Swedish jul corresponds to English y- in yellow. So when I wrote ”djur is pronounced as if it were jur” I meant according to Swedish spelling. An English approximation of ”djur” would be ”yoor”. Swedish lacks the English /dʒ/ <j> sound in e.g. jungle.

[lizardbethh]

Ohhhh I see. Good to know. :)

[EmilyWilli570604]

how is "the animal eats" different (and wrong) compared to "the animal is eating"?

[Austin211825]

Why isn't this also the animals if the plural of djur is djur?

[PatrickCoa6]

I think that would be djuren. The definite plural of child is barnen (as in the children), even though the general plural is barn (children), so is probably the same for all ett verbs.

[Kian089]

I hear a v sound in it too ... like ... uvrett ... is it just me ??

[Medysen]

You aren't the only one. (And this is not Sam Smith's song)

[tjack87]

can i ask what TTS is? is this the woman's voice? so when would djuret be used instead of the actual animal name? so if i couldnt remember the animals name, would it be correct to use djuret instead? :)

[lagolas2010]

What "TTS"?

[Sarah21189]

Text-To-Speech