I fell for this too. I thought I was translating from Swedish to English, rather than the other way around, so I got it wrong.

Indeed, i translated it as "but" :)

Very true. It should be put into the context of a sentence.

It's an exception, or at least I think so. Swedish natve correcrt me if I'm wrong!

Man in swedish is "man" (ma-a-n), men is män cause ä=e. Wow you really need "Nikood" like hebrew, arabic and other middle east languages does.

män sounds like 'men' in English, the ä is like 'eee', man has a stressed a.

I hear män like 'ma-yun', and man like 'mon'.