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"What is bread?"
Translation:Hva er brød?
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Because it's referring to bread in general, rather than a particular loaf of bread.
I love the flow of Norwegian. It's such a graceful language to speak.
how is brød pronounced im really confused also how is just ø pronounced too??
Just the ø is pronounced like the i in dirt or the ea in earth. Brød kind of sounds like bruh to me personally.
The correct IPA pronunciation is /brøː/.
Ø is a close-mid front protruded vowel. If you have trouble with pronouncing it properly, visit this discussion thread and look for my reply to @Leighfy7. Also, on the discussion page, you can click the word itself (Duolingo will take you to the dictionary page) to listen only to its sounds being pronounced.
Click here for the IPA pronunciation guide. Follow this link to hear the word pronounced on Forvo by a native speaker.
Bread is the colour of my skin, the colour of my people. Let us never forget what bread is. For if we forget that, we forget everything we are fighting for.
"...that this bread will not have dried in vain..."
-Bread'n'ham Lincoln
There are several ways you can enter in non-English characters:
- use the ø button underneath the textbox during exercises
- copy it from somewhere else (search "o slash" on Google)
- on mobile, click and hold the letter o to view more characters
- on desktop/laptop, turn Num Lock on, hold down the Alt key and then enter 155 on the numeric keypad to get the letter ø
- install Norwegian keyboard layout on your operating system/smartphone (most sensible approach)
