"Mannen"

Translation: The man

[AbbyDonahue]

So "en man" means a man and "mannen" means the man? please explain

[Lundgren8]

Yes that’s correct. Instead of having a seperate word ”the” we hook it onto the end instead.

[XoooOverdose]

That's so weird and cool ^_^

[yuriteixei]

Can't agree more

[FerryAker]

So how do you say 'the water' if the word 'vatten' already ends on 'en'?

[Sketch]

It's called "vattnet"

[xy0127ee]

i can understand about -et thing but why not vatten+et=vattenet? why vatt+"N"+et?

[HoroTanuki]

Well vatten is an "-et" word which only looks like it ends in "-en", so vatten by itself has no article, but when you add -et at the end the first "e" is dropped to make it easier to pronounce. I think.

[AbbyDonahue]

that makes sense. easier than having to remember three different words for "the" like in other languages
thanks for your help!

[Lundgren8]

Instead you have to remember a series of endings. :)

[AbbyDonahue]

ah. well thats still fun :)

[Zach1337]

At first I thought the definite Man would be Manen because I didn't realize that you need to add an extra "n" when making Man definite. Is there a rule to doubling consonants like "n" when making a word definite or is it simply something that you have to learn for the words that do it?

[Lundgren8]

The thing is that we often don’t write n and m double when they’re at the end of words. This is a silly thing but we’ll have to deal with it. We write han, hon, man, kan, tom, glöm! but we pronounce them as if they were written hann, honn, mann, kann, tomm, glömm. However, when you add further vowels to the word, then you typically write them double again (but not always): mannen, kunna, tomma, glömma. So you could say the invisible n resurfaces again in the definite form.

[MonsieurCal]

Interesting. Opposite in French, we only double the consonants when there isn't another sound after. 'appelle' 'appelions'

[Fjompeji]

Manen actually means the hair on the horses head :)

[Telisa7]

The mane. Nice.

[eyestrain_]

It's the same with "en kvinna" meaning a woman and "kvinnan" meaning the woman. Likewise for "pojken" and "flickan."

[Mewzyk]

So does this mean "en man" is "a man" because "en" = "one/an/a" and by adding it to the end "en man" > "mannEN" would mean "the man"?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes.

[Mewzyk]

Tack! ☺

[22cHauck]

a word for the man? how convenient!

[Zmrzlina]

Swedish ftw. :)

[DanTheRealDan]

i accidentally put mannan and it still counted as correct. is this an alternate translation?

[ElijahMN]

It recognizes typos.

[RosaChen]

what about the woman? only kvinna?

[ZL321]

Kvinnan.

(Though you probably figured this out already.)

[eyestrain_]

Kvinnan (the woman) and en kvinna (a woman).

[angel_XD]

When the word ett and when the word en

[ante36]

There is sadly no way of knowing. You just have to learn it word for word.

[DanTheRealDan]

take this with a grain of salt, but it seems that en is mostly used for gendered words, while ett is used mostly for neutral words

[xy0127ee]

so Mannen" means "the man". But "männen" means "the men" is correct ?
if this is correct then when i want to say not "the men" just "men" do i have to say män? somebody help me please

[ante36]

Yes you are correct! "Men like it" would be "Män gillar det" for example. :)

[Melesteic]

It's like Romanian:
A man: Un barbat
The man: Barbatul

[idkidk441157]

Sooo en nan means a man and mannen means the man...right?

[Arabella210259]

That's right (asumming you mean man and the nan was a typo of course) :)

[DimitrisIp]

It will not say what i am saying