"A woman is drinking water."

Translation: En kvinna dricker vatten.

[MarkoB14]

Can someone explain me the difference between kvinnan and kvinna?
Thank you!:)

[Arnauti]

If you know how it works in English, kvinnan is the woman and en kvinna is a woman.
If you don't have this distinction in your native language, the general rule is that we use the definite form (kvinnan) when we know which one we are talking about.

[Josue430859]

Kvinna = woman
Kvinnan = THE womam

The "n" signals the "the"

[Anthony200600]

Kvinnan is in definitive form
Kvinna is infinite form, I think so

[ALLintolearning3]

The expression "en kvinna" is indefinite form meaning "a woman". An infinitive is a verb.

[LilithSama2]

I grew up with a Swedish American immigrant, he spoke very broken swedish/english, so sometimes I accidentally make words that are both languages combined because that is how he spoke sometimes.

[ThomasKeit4]

Why is it not 'En kvinna är dricker vatten'?

[LarsJohn]

in Swedish there is no distinction between progressive and simple form of a verb. So dricker vatten could be translated to "drinks water" and "is drinking water".

[KimStam91]

So if kvinnan means the woman and kvinna means a woman, then why do you say jag är en kvinna, why use 'en' ? Should jag är kvinna not be enough? Or means kvinna just woman and not a woman?

[ALLintolearning3]

"a woman" = "en kvinna"

"kvinnan" = "the woman"

"kvinna" = "woman" not "a woman" and it is not used that way