"Sköldpaddan äter."

Translation: The turtle eats.

[parasdox]

having trouble pronouncing this

[DavidDavid64]

Are there lots of turtles in Sweden? These exercises seem to be very keen on the term..

[mattwhiskers]

Some of them may be ninjas...

[Zmrzlina]

No wild turtles in Sweden anymore. There were some, until the marshier parts of southern Sweden were drained and claimed for agriculture about 100 years ago, destroying their habitats.

[mmdvak]

So "sköldpadda" is "shield toad" just like Schildkröte in German?

[Caramelldansen64]

Apparently. If you search for "sköld" and "padda" separately on Google, you get a shield and a toad respectively.

[jeppzer]

Yes, exactly. Always was a funny name for something that is not a toad. Just like hedgehog is Igelkott (leech (pine)cone) :)

[Luscinda]

Does this word mean turtle or tortoise or either/both?

[Zmrzlina]

Either/both.

[mikethemaker]

So the pronunciation of the Swedish K when paired with vowels ä e ö y is a "shwa" sound? Are there other vowels or dipthongs that make the K behave this way?

[Zmrzlina]

Schwa is a vowel sound, that K cannot have in Swedish. However, the Swedish K is pronounced /ɕ/ before the so-called soft vowels of E, I, Y, Ä and Ö.

[HebaYasser]

i can hear it more of "Ph" sound Spholpaddan i can`t get it right!

[Zmrzlina]

It's very close to a SH-sound (which will work fine).

[JakePattison]

"The turtle's eating" is wrong apparently

[Arnauti]

The contractions are supposed to be generated automatically by Duo, but sometimes that doesn't work as it should.

[LaneV88]

Oh boy, I'm going to struggle to remember tl/ pronounce this one...

[Tino_unmotivated]

I pronounce it way too harshly. But that goes for most things. How could I change this?

[Espatially]

The Sk here sounds like a Russian щ (shch) if I am not mistaken.

[diskmaskinen]

sköldpaddan flyttar!

[DougLary1]

The prompt did not contain the swedish transation for turtle.