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- "Det är barnets te."
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1491
barnets can only mean the child's. It goes like this:
Singular: ett barn, barnet ('a child, the child')
Plural: barn, barnen ('children, the children')
For the genitive, just add the -s.
And in normal speech it can be reduced to a s sound, just because it's a word our brains expect and can kind of fill in. You can get lazy with normal speech in your first language, but when you learn another it becomes a lot more obvious - we just have to get used to the language, so we don't have to explicitly think about everything
1491
Yes, de and dem are both pronounced as if they were written dom, but det is pronounced as de (in everyday speech) or det (when speaking very clearly).
1491
That type of exercises seems to have its own set of bugs that we can't really do anything about. Sorry about that.