"Hundarna äter kött."
Translation:The dogs eat meat.
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That is most definitely not what it sounds like
It's not wrong though, although the voice has a slightly funny intonation.
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Swedish meatballs were one of my favorite dishes when I was growing up. (Probably not really Swedish, of course.)
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Is it normal to hear "kott" as "shirt"? Is that how you actually pronounce it, or is the audio off?
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This is correctly pronounced, though the intonation is a bit weird at the end.
k is pronounced as an Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant (click for sound)
Minus the r is what I hear. Though I think its more shot but the o sounding like you would say goat?
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I might have missed something here but where does the "a" come from in "Hundarna"?
There are two, which one do you mean? :)
The first is part of a standard pluralisation rule - hund sg -> hundar pl.
The second one is part of a standard definiteness suffix - hundar indef -> hundarna def.
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Thanks, for the insight, as I have continued to learn Swedish the definite and plurals have become much clearer.
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Kattekött, according to one of the other sentences that I've had.
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It sounds like "Hunden äter kött". Only once I knew the answer and listened very closely, was I able to discern a very slight, almost nonexistent 'r' in the fast version. The slow version sounds like "Hundena äter kött", without any discernible 'r' even when listening closely. How would a Swedish native speaker pronounce this?
Sounds great to me. The Swedish rn sound does not sound like in most languages - rather, it's a retroflex nasal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroflex_nasal)
