"En ren äter ett äpple."

Translation: A reindeer is eating an apple.

[ryroctopus]

How can you tell the difference between äter meaning is eating and eats

[Scream0707]

It was hard to understand the TTS on slow, too.

[dantegiova]

It was a tricky one audio..

[Greg4xTrader]

Ok problem guys:In google translate REN= CLEAN while here ren = reindeer ???!!

[Arnauti]

It means both.

[jamesjiao]

It pays to use a dictionary to look up individual words rather than google translate.

[limerenc]

The "r" in "ren" sounds like the English "r" but everywhere else it sounds like a trilled R?

[Lundgren8]

The Swedish /r/ varies a lot depending in dialect and speaker so you can’t say there’s one way to pronounce it but typically it’s a tap as in Scottish English or American English ”butter”.

[javakaffe]

tap as in the tongue taps the top of your mouth quickly?

[Lundgren8]

Yes, exactly.

[Alexi.N]

Mind you, I just kept hitting replay to listen - such a melodic phrase! And I guess it has something to do with the 'apple' in the sentence... Maybe I was "en Svenska ren" in a past life (hoping I got that right)...

[Heironymous1]

Is there another word for deer I wonder?

[Anrui]

There indeed is! En hjort

[DogePamyuPamyu]

Okay I'm kinda confused why all these sentences are obsessed with elk/moose/reindeer... Are reindeer native to Sweden? I guess this has nothing to do with the language but it's related to Sweden! :D

[Anrui]

We have quite a few reindeer and moose in Sweden.

I have personally crashed with two moose and one deer, but no reindeer so far... So watch out if you're driving in Sweden! (Edit: I was never the one driving, so not really personally, but I was still in the cars)

[LaneV88]

I'm Struggling with the pronunciation for "ren". It sounds like "ree-en" to me; is that correct? Are there any other usages of /e/ that sound like this, either in English (rhyme) or Swedish (spelling) that I can use to practice?

[HBapt26]

I want to know too

[friswing]

Well, since the vowel is followed by only one consonant, the vowel is rather long. A double consonant would shorten the vowel. I think this is typical of Swedish, and I can't think of an English equivalent.

[poplaroid]

so are all animals "en" nouns? (except for the word animal itself)

[friswing]

Unfortunately, no rule is that easy. I'm native Swede, and I have to go through every animal-word to check that. I have not yet. It seems that many common animals are "en" nouns. But not all. A sheep = ett får. A swine = ett svin. A wild boar = ett vildsvin. A lion = ett lejon. ... There might be more

[gwynethelodie]

are deer and reindeer the same?

[friswing]

no, deer = rådjur, reindeer = ren

[JellyMarck]

Every single animal eat apples in here...

[LaneV88]

I was just coming to say that. Except wolves. They eat moose. :facepalm:

[JellyMarck]

I love how äpple sounds

[ManonOuden]

Why is it is eating insteadof eats?

[Alastair_Reader]

Typo in the typo correction! Flagged 'a reindeer' and told me it should be 'a reindeers' which is clearly incorrect

[MiguelTara10]

Reno in Spanish. So alike!

[jag-alskar-dig]

why cant i say eats?