"De äter inte kycklingen."

Translation: They are not eating the chicken.

[NaveenGabr]

Why " they do no eat the chicken" is wrong?

[Federiccoli]

Am I hearing right? "Kycklingen" is pronounced with a "sh" sound for the "ky-"?

[Sninguistics]

So you are! K and TJ before E, I, Y, Ä and Ö take on a 'sh' sound.

[saiyajen]

Why is this "They are not eating the chicken" and not "They do not eat the chicken"?

[makmegs]

Why doesn't "They eat not the chicken" work?

[PartisanGerm]

Direct translating, word by word, doesn't transfer the grammar properly. Sounds like Yoda otherwise.

[Lundgren8]

Because it’s an uncommon way to say it in English. You could write either ”They are not eating” or ”They don’t eat”.

[uguboz]

Same here. must be a bug

[Evaluna93]

Shouldn't "de" be pronounced as "dom"? Or is that a regional accent?

[Arnauti]

de is normally pronounced as dom (except in a few dialects), this is a known error of our present TTS.

[Katica820791]

They are not eating the chicken,... They do not eat the chicken... How would I know the difference? What depends on?

[Steffi248414]

If I wanted to say "No, they are not eating the chicken" - how would the word order be? Cause I vaguely remember reading that verbs always come after the first word, "inte" right after the verb. Would it be "Nej, äter inte de kycklingen" or does the Nej not count?

[BashP]

... because they keep it as their family pet.

[Hayco7]

"They aren't eating the chicken" should be accepted (but is not).

[veroniiiviiika]

Of course they aren't eating it. The man loves the chicken, for Shrek's sake.

[Kitty812527]

English speakers would most often omit 'the' before chicken

[uan33]

Agreed, but then the meaning would be different. In this case it is the specific bird that they won"t eat. Who knows why?

[Arnauti]

Right, we'd also say …äter inte kyckling for the general sense of not eating chicken. There's no real difference in how the article is used between the languages in this case.

[MichaelRob57284]

"Dom äter inte kycklingen" is actually what is being said. Duolingo - wake up! Is anyone there??

[Paulo144727]

This was bothering me as well. It really is pronounced "dem".
Apparently this simplification happened in the early 1900s when a partially illiterate work force migrated into the cities simultaneously with expanding industrialization. And with that the northern tongue, which favored a non distinction between "de" and "dem", only pronouncing "dem" was adapted into the language formal.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9ieozJ-ws

So there you have it.

[MichaelRob57284]

PLEASE!!! "De äter inte kycklingen" is the same as "Dom äter inte kycklingen" !!!

[MichaelRob57284]

"Dom" is not spelled "de" !!! Is there anyone at home at Duolingo???

[MichaelRob57284]

Is there anyone home at Duolingo???

[MichaelRob57284]

Please, Duolingo, sort this mispronunciation - it's getting to be ridiculous!!!

[MichaelRob57284]

Duolingo, please address this mispronunciation problem!

[SpaceDandy_Meow]

I put 'De äter ine kycklingen' and got it right and it did not say I had a typo when I used 'ine' instead of 'inte'. Is this normal or based on dialect or was it supposed to be wrong?

[VikingPrank]

I typed "kyckclingen" and it didn't tell me about the typo

[Jennierose811242]

I never even got to make one sound!! How can Ms. Red mark me wrong before I made even ONE sound? HOW???