"De ser djuret."

Translation: They see the animal.

[arielkangaroo]

Is "de" supposed to be pronounced like "dom"?

[Arnauti]

Yes.

[Tomymy31]

What would be the difference if it was "the animals" ?

[Arnauti]

That would be djuren. (singular is ett djur)

[Tomymy31]

Thank you for your answer :)

[dthief]

They VIEW the animal is wrong? Like at a zoo, would that be different?

[Arnauti]

That would be closer to tittar på. (with the preposition på, not the particle, so it's not stressed).

[Finn2019]

any advice for pronouncing djuret, I feel like I'm copying the audio exactly but can't get anything to work

[zig1991]

Why isn't "Dom ser djuret" correct?

[4oYBIxtO]

"Dom" is normally not used in written text, even though it is much used when you speak.

[Adia512032]

true.

[Arnauti]

We actually accept it in translations, but there's a bug that prevents the machine from accepting any kind of spelling variation in the dictation exercises.

[HBapt26]

Every one of these speaking lessons say In didn't say one word or another but I always do, don't get it

[BulutCalka]

Its not true do good:

[JonQuinlan3]

Another broken Duolingo audio question. Very frustrating. I'm not subscribing again.

[JonQuinlan3]

I've run into about half a dozen audio questions on Duolingo that are epically-broken. That is, the answer Duo eventually accepts is not even close to what the prompt suggests, and this is one of them. After trying perhaps 15 times and getting the "hmm... that doesn't sound quite right", I finally said "kak zhivut udarniki" (that's Russian). And that worked. Apparently, Duo thinks these two phrases sound more or less the same, which makes me wonder if there's any point in doing the audio questions at all.

[Sean553356]

So De is always pronounced Dom ?