"Männen"
Translation:The men
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wonder how to listen to the difference of sounds between mannen and männen
It's as clear as English, usually (Man - Men). The speaker has a dialect.
For anyone having trouble, "man" is pronounced "mon" and "män" is more like the English "man"
It's similar to the difference in the English words "man" and "men", I've found. The "a" in Mannen sounds similar to the "a" in "man" (not exactly); and the "ä" in Männen sounds similar to the "e" in "men".
Isn't it rather vice versa? "ä-" in 'männen' sounds more like english 'man' to me...
Is there no clear difference in how to pronounce 'mannen' and 'männen', or am I just not hearing it?
"Männen" is pronounced exactly as you would say "mennen". The short ä and short e sounds are almost always identical in Swedish.
It's worth pointing out that for English speakers from the Southern United States (like myself), this analogy/example is NOT true.
Southerners pronounce "men" (and almost all "e-before-nasal-consonant" words) as if it were spelled "min" (rhymes with "pin").
So, if you're a southerner, it can be much harder to differentiate between "Man" and the non-southern pronunciation of "Men" (and, by extension, between "Mannen" and "Männen").
Us southerners need to keep a wary ear out for the subtle difference between "-ehn" sounds and "-an" sounds, as we aren't used to hearing the former.
No, from my understanding only the plural has the umlaut.
Mannen = the man / Männen = the men
NVRSLPS is correct. :) Additionally, the indefinite forms are man = man, män = men.
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I wrote the man instead of the men and it got accepted as a typo? I think it should be wrong.