"Her conscience was clean."

Translation: Samvittigheten hennes var ren.

[Kalitan]

Is there a good way to learn the difference between "samvittighet" and "bevissthet"? Like the etymology of each word.

[UtkarshSyng]

Hvorfor er det ikke riktig å skrive 'samvittigheten sin'?

[fveldig]

"Sin" can only be used for an object that the subject owns, never the subject itself.

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[UtkarshSyng]

It has to be a material object, then? Because one could say one "owns" their own conscience.

[fveldig]

No, 'object' means the grammatical object here.

[CommissarFeesh]

If the person had already been introduced in the sentence you could use sin.

[Heithr]

I was expecting klar, rather than ren for clean.