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- "Vi äter mat nu."
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1493
This word order sounds formal in an odd way. It isn't totally grammatically wrong, but it's unnatural enough not to be an accepted answer.
nu is a time adverbial and those typically prefer to go at the end or start of a sentence. The kind of adverbial that typically does go in that place [= between 'äter' and 'mat' in this example] are sentence adverbials (the kind of adverbial that modifies the whole sentence or says something about the speaker's attitude to the whole sentence) inte, 'not' is a typical example, which would go there: Vi äter inte mat.
1493
It isn't necessary like in Jag lagar mat, you can definitely say Vi äter nu (and that sounds much better, in my opinion).
210
In English, this phrase seems to be missing a possessive adjective? It would make more sense to say, "Vi äter vår mat nu", but I'm not sure if that makes sense in Swedish? Tack!