Learn Swedish: Dricker hunden mycket vatten? - Does the dog drink a lot of water?

Mycket means "much" or "a lot of" and is used with uncountable things, like vatten (water) or coffee. You use många (many) for things you can actually count with numbers, like dogs or apples.

Why does the sentence start with the verb Dricker?

Swedish doesn't use helper words like "do" or "does" to ask questions. To make a yes/no question, you simply put the verb first. So, hunden dricker means "the dog drinks", but dricker hunden? means "does the dog drink?".

Could this sentence also mean "Is the dog drinking a lot of water?"

Yes! Swedish doesn't have an exact match for the English "is doing" tense. Dricker translates to both "drinks" (as a habit) and "is drinking" (right now). You figure out which one is meant from the context.

How do we get "the dog" from hunden?

In Swedish, the word "the" isn't a separate word that goes before the noun. Instead, it attaches to the end of the noun. The base word is hund (dog), and adding the suffix -en makes it hunden (the dog).