"Hur många pojkar simmar?"
Translation:How many boys are swimming?
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Does the "s" in "simmar" sound like "sh" because it follows an "r"?
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Tack. And are there other contexts where the "s" sounds the same way, or where other letters are influenced by their neighbors in a similar way?
This will happen in most words where you have a cluster of R + those consonants. The R will influence and merge with following S, N, T and/or D, and for some dialects L too (although that's rare). That's why the part of Stockholm called Hornstull will in fact have all of its middle cluster of consonants retroflexed by the R into /ɳʂʈ/, if phonology is your thing.
Also this does not happen in Southern Sweden that uses a ”French” /r/ and not really in Finland either.
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I'm looking to reply to Lundgren8's comment "Also this does not happen in Southern Sweden that uses a ”French” /r/ and not really in Finland either," but I don't see a "reply" for that button - so, is that Southern Swedish "French" /r/ like the Danish "r"?
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yes! The Southern Swedish and the Danish / French / German /r/ are quite similar! Check out the different "Skånska" / Scanian dialects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc3-AyPLa6I
The Finnish and the Standard Swedish /r/ are the same but in the Finnish variant, you do not merge /r/ with /s/ (nor any other consonant).
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The TTS was changed, this was one of the few things the old TTS did better. Actually, most Swedes would make the r and s in pojkar simmar melt together into a retroflex, sh-like sound, so you should have heard it here… but the new Voice swallows the r instead.
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Since this sentence could be interpreted as either "how many boys are swimming?" or "how many boys swim?", is there a way to distinguish the two in Swedish?
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Does "många" sounds like monga with a very light g? Or sounds like monya where G sounds as "ya"?
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"Ng" together is a special sound, the same as the English "ng" in "sing.
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Does många always refer to people, or could you say e.g. "Jag äter många äpplen"?
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mycket is used for uncountable nouns: mycket vatten
många is used for countable nouns: många katter
mycket can also be an adverb:
han är mycket glad - he is very happy