"The woman is not eating the pork."

Translation: Kvinnan äter inte fläskköttet.

[KalmanFarkas]

so both "grisköttet" and "fläskköttet" mean "the pork"?

[Arnauti]

Yup. And fläsket too.

[KalmanFarkas]

okej, tack!

[beagoodone]

what are the differences between ett and en?

[Zmrzlina]

Each noun is either, and you have to learn it's grammatical gender along with the word.

[beagoodone]

thx. should i just memorize one by one for every noun, or any rules to classify usefully?

Besides, ett och en are like male - female gender or neutral - common?

[Super8Mario]

Neutral and common, and there is no specific rule you have to memorize them, over 80% are en words tho

[danielmonteiro16]

Does kvinna sounds just ‘kvinna’ or ‘kfinna’?

[Arnauti]

It's a kv sound. You can hear a native speaker say it here: http://sv.forvo.com/search-sv/kvinnan/
The v sound can be a little less voiced when it's next to a voiceless consonant like k than when it's just with a vowel, but it shouldn't be said as an f sound, that sounds broken.

[ZeeSharp]

So if you can say just fläsk for pork to say the pork would it be fläsken?

[Arnauti]

Almost, fläsket. It's an ett word: ett fläsk, fläsket. (It isn't used in the plural.)

[ZeeSharp]

Thanks!

[hpfan5]

is 'the woman does not eat pork' also acceptable? - if she is a vegetarian..

[Arnauti]

That would be Kvinnan äter inte fläskkött in Swedish.

[hpfan5]

forgot the 'the' thanks

[WickedValkyrie]

I haven't learned the words for "cow" or "pig" yet, and these meat words have me wondering if flask/nott are pig/cow, respectively... Like if literally translated you'd be saying pig meat / cow meat. Can someone tell me if I'm right and, if not, where they got these words from?

[Arnauti]

pig is 'gris' or 'svin'.
cow is 'ko'
nötkreatur means 'cattle' so nötkött comes from that.
fläsk is a cognate of English 'flesh' and German 'Fleisch' though it only refers to pig meat in Swedish. (actually you can talk about the fat on a person's body using this word too, sort of jokingly, but if it's said about food, it'll be pig meat).

[WickedValkyrie]

Oh wow, tack!

[Keshash]

I love the option "Kvinnan[s] mannen [är] ej grillköttlet "

[HannaAmon]

How do you know when to put inte before or after the verb (i.e jag talar inte svenska)

[coral199625]

I answered ligger as the phrase clearly days is eating and was marked wrong .Why is this ?

[devalanteriel]

ligger means "lying", as in being situated in a lying-down position.

[Youareyou64]

I always mix up ( and can't spell) beef and pork. Any tips?

[Kvaakkeliini]

Arnauti! Are you from Swedish? I am from Finland. Do you know Finland? As you may have noticed, I do