"The woman drinks beer."

Translation: Kvinnan dricker öl.

[MaxLeon]

How do I know if I write dricker or drycker?

[Zmrzlina]

Dryck (sing.) or drycker (pl.) is a noun, while dricka/dricker is a verb.

Kvinnan dricker en dryck = The woman drinks a drink

[Kolenka2]

But in the first lessons that was "Mannen drycker vatten".

[Zmrzlina]

No, it's "mannen dricker vatten".

[Kolenka2]

Just checked - you are right. Sorry, my bad.

[Anders91]

Dricker -- Drinking

Drycker -- Drinks, as in the plural of drink. "I have a drink".

[sk8god]

"Dryck" is considered to mean beverage, but Duolingo still counts it as valid if you use drink instead of beverage. Considering that "dryck" means beverage, than "drycker" would mean beverageing? Just doesn't make sense.

[flashingcat]

It is funny that Öl means oil in German:)

[KaidaAurora]

Yeah lol. I have German and Swedish at school, and because I started German in 5th grade, I almost died of laughter when our Swedish lessons started in 6th grade :D

[akw_005]

Are you from finland? :D

[Am98505]

yep, that threw me a little lol

[SamuraiOwl]

HmmmMMMmmm

[AndiSchill]

Hopefully she doesnt drink too much ;)

[LilianaCroft]

I'm having a hard time pronouncing Ol (wow, I don't even have that symbol on my cell!). It sounds like some words in French but not quite that??

[Drago02129]

To me it sounds a bit like "ale".

[kotsotu]

I don't know why this got disliked. It literally sounds like ale. I had a whole moment when I realized that.

[chundhi]

Yes the English word ale comes from Old English Alu/ealu which is related to the Old Norse word ǫl. All the north germanic languages came from old norse. While English is a West Germanic language, Old Norse had a profound impact on Old English (and ultimately modern English) introducing many words.