"Kocken dricker kaffe."
Translation:The cook is drinking coffee.
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Through context. Most languages are like that. Heck, some languages, like Japanese and Tagalog, don't have the present, past or future tenses but what they call the "perfect" and "imperfect" tenses. Anyway, the two have close definitions and you'll usually be able to differentiate them through context.
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As it's discussed in pretty much every previous lesson, English is the one of the few Germanic languages that actually distinguish the two tenses, Icelandic being another one. Another Germanic language - Dutch, expresses the continuous aspect, not with a different tense but with different constructions such as using one of the 'posture verbs' - 'Ik lig te slapen' - I am sleeping or literally 'I lie (down) to sleep'.
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Context is the only answer, as per exhaustive explanation by theredcebuano and me. You will just have to change the way you think.
It's pronounced more of "dreeker" You can hear native Swedish speakers say it here: http://www.forvo.com/word/dricker/#sv