"En myra och en elefant."

Translation: An ant and an elephant.

[Yoruji]

The English sentence has an "an" overload..

[MaryBeth378619]

Yes. It has 5.

[som3rsault]

almost a tongue twister

[NattKullav1]

Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter.

[som3rsault]

i was referring to the english translation, but i'm really liking this sentence :)

[NattKullav1]

It was a famous Swedish children program.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UI5aDUflRcE

[som3rsault]

oh, that's so great! i really like that they used some jazz music for the names section.
and the animations somewhat remind me of Die Sendung mit der Maus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA1SEGXZW4M

[TobyBartels]

Showing the full range of size of Duolingo animals …

[Lena316489]

I put the sentence in correctly, but it was coundet as a mistake! This is the second time this happened today!

[SamuraiOwl]

Way to go, Duolingo! Another wack combination!

[Athalawulfaz]

English has the cognate 'mire', but this is mostly obsolete. The word ant is from Proto-Germanic uzmaitijō, Old English ǣmette, literally an 'out-cutter'.

[eXPiT]

There is "K" in this version of TTS (7-02-2015) "och en" (o-k-en).
Is it how native speakers say this words combination?

[MesutS1]

Yes, it's pronounced "ock" or sometimes as "å".

[Blehg]

I would say that it's more likely that a native speaker would pronounce this sentence without the /k/ in casual speech.

[Luke-LM]

So when does An become A.. e.g "a ant"

[devalanteriel]

You use "a" before consonant sounds, and "an" before vowel sounds.

[MaryBeth378619]

How do you say 'owl' and 'owlet' in Swedish? We should have had that animal in the beginning considering duolingo's maskot.

[devalanteriel]

uggla, uggleunge

[P3tan]

I thought I was learning Swedish, not English tongue twisters

[urgayauntie]

So how's the a+o combined together pronounced?:)

[Kvaakkeliini]

Suomi on maailman onnellisin maa

[KristinaTy20]

An ant and an elefant...