"De gick till stranden."

Translation: They went to the beach.

[rach_jules]

So 'gick' is past tense of 'går'?

[HelenCarlsson]

Yes, it is a strong/irregular verb:
att gå - jag går - jag gick -jag har gått

[jaiirapetjan]

The new TTS makes the "De" sound like /dom/ to me.

[Arnauti]

Yes, that's how it should sound, the old one was wrong.

[sgnail]

Hooray för bättre uttalet!

[jaiirapetjan]

Åh okej. Tack så mycket.

[Nebelung1]

"De" and "dem" are pronounced like /dom/ in most dialects as well as in rikssvenska (this is why many Swedes confuse them when writing).

In some dialects in northern Sweden and in Finland (finlandssvenska) you pronounce those two words just like you read them (/dɛ/ and /dɛm/)

Sometimes /dɛ/ and /dɛm/ also appear in formal speech.

[Fantomius]

"TTS"?

[jaiirapetjan]

Text-to-speech. The computer-generated voice that pronounces all the sentences in most Duolingo courses, except Irish and perhaps now there are others.

[annika_a]

Esperanto is another one with a real voice.

[tjasonham]

Mmmm, I'm sure this has been answered before, but when do you use går/gick vs åker/åkte?

[HelenCarlsson]

"Gå" normally means walk and "åka" normally means go (by vehicle).

[tjasonham]

tack~ I think I subconsciously associated gå with go and åka with walk because they sound so similar! hahaha

[Heidijan]

Og hva med "drog"?

[Arnauti]

It can mean 'went to' (or more 'left for' i.e. with a focus more on the leaving part of the movement) but it's pretty slangy. I have a feeling it's less slangy in both Danish and Norwegian, though I could totally be wrong.

[Valdemarsda]

It's not a slang word in Norwegian - just a regular old verb.

[Arnauti]

Thanks for confirming!

[JeanStuart5]

What is the difference between “gick”” and “akte

[Languagenotebook]

Is the "g" in gick pronounced like the French "j" or like a "y" in English? Need clarification. TIA

[HelenCarlsson]

Does that mean if it is voiced or voiceless? I don't speak French, so that's why I ask. Normally, it's voiceless but within words/sentences you might hear a little buzzing :).

[Languagenotebook]

I'm sure I'll get it sooner or later. At first I was freaked out by the sk and some of the k sounds too.

[Languagenotebook]

Okay, I did the exercise again and it definitely is unvoiced and sounds more like a "y" in English. But Spanish does that buzzing thing too with its y sound so it can sound like a j sometimes. It's just the way the human vocal structures are, I guess. Thank you, Helen! <3

[Languagenotebook]

In a way it sounds like the hard sh sound in pleasure, but then it also sounds like the y sound in your. Hard to pick it out! :)

[craigchardy]

I'm hearing "stranden" being pronounced as "standen." What happened to the "r" sound? When it's pronounced slowly, the "r" sound is heard.

[Trilby16]

Robot lady keeps saying lick instead of gick. Is that the pronunciation?

[CedSgm7N]

Since "gick" can mean either 'walked' or just 'went', how would the listener know? I suppose if the beach was within walking distance, the assumption might be that they actually did 'walk,' while a further distance (too far to walk) would have the listener assuming it meant they drove or took a bus or ....