"Mannen äter bröd."

Translation: The man eats bread.

[ZilavyT]

How can I determine when it is- "The man IS EATING bread" and when it would just be "The man EATS bread"? The times confuse me.

[mr0DXN]

Are both tenses correct; the present continuous tense and the present tense? It seems me both are accepted correct.

[IvyNicholls]

It is mannen and not man because that en at the end mean the

[SophiaSkye2]

Yes, this is true or similar for other words.

[Janel0u]

How do you pronounce "brod"?

[Lundgren8]

Like so. It’s close to the vowel in fur without the r-flavour.

[Janel0u]

Thanks

[Gustavo605847]

A bread but the e with the sound of o

[Ulysser]

It has the same sound of the "ö" in German or "eu" in French.
Pronounce "e" as in the word EIGHT without i-sound, with the lips rounded.
This vowel is classified like front rounded vowel.

I HOPE TO HAVE HELPED YOU.

[Kurttb10]

I really think that the genders of nouns should be showed like in German when you hover over nouns.

[En.Flicka]

Wow, if you say 'Mannen ater brod' again and again, it sounds like what it is trans. to: 'The man eats the bread'. Well, kind of.
My question is, do some words sound like English because, Sweden and Germany were close at one time, and English gets part of German words?
Or is there another reason?

[pirovaldes]

"the man eats bread" (no starting capital is not accepted... picky)

[devalanteriel]

Duolingo isn't supposed to care about capitalisation or punctuation, but occasionally the system screws up and still does. Nobody know why, I'm afraid. :(

[yroxis]

so are verbs such as Äter and dricker present tense by themselves? and what would happen in a sentence to change them to past and future? also do these conjugate to different nouns such as what happens to verbs in german?

[gul123nara]

Don't we need to use an article before bröd? We put before äpple.

[devalanteriel]

No, bröd functions as a mass noun here.

[n2fole00]

Is it normal that the e in mannen and vatten sounds like a letter a or is it the recording?

[devalanteriel]

No, but it sounds correct here. I think you may be expecting the wrong sound - Swedish vowels can be long or short, and the e is short in both of those cases. These videos on Swedish vowels are really helpful: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUb87YTKOTgnGcAM4toC-6A

[8MsM8]

So like... It's 'en' after the word when it's a definite article? All the time? Are there exceptions? Does gender matter? I'm sort of confused XD I don't even know why I'm learning Sweden

[mesvensson]

Yes, where English puts the word "the" in front of nouns to express the definitive, Swedish puts a suffix at the end of the word instead. "-en" or "-et" depending on the gender of the noun.