"De antager, at pigen er perfekt."
Translation:They assume that the girl is perfect.
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Is the fast version or the slow version of "antager" in this sentence correct?
Version slow sounds more like "an tager" where fast version sounds like "an teger".
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The normal speech sounds right to me. The TTS can be a little temperamental. In this case, the a has more of an /æ/ sound, and the g is soft, so it has a /j/ sort of sound. You can hear a real person's pronunciation here: http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=antage
(Copied from your other question, but with a different link. :)
I have to disagree.
The /æ/ sound refers to the infinitive form of the verb. If you look at the base form of the verb (without the prefix "an") in the dictionary, you'll notice that in the present tense "tage" is pronounced like /ta/ - http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=tage So I would expect that the slower version is how it really sounds.
I am not native and this is all just an assumption, so I may be totally wrong.
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yes and no.
it is called the "grammatical comma", in which you put a comma between a main clause and a following subordinate clause. but the "new comma" system, which is recommended, does not require a comma there before "at".
Both systems are accepted.
