"Direktøren betaler arbejderne."

Translation: The manager pays the workers.

[EmilyJJorgensen]

He doesn't pay them enough. Time for revolution!

[PatrickDaSilva]

Is "the employees" wrong? I hesitated.

[Jnwulff]

Emplayees=ansatte
Workers=arbejderne

Ansatte indicate thst they have a job contract. Arbejderne just that they are working

[LittleCatz]

I put "the employees" and I got it wrong :-/ That seems a bit silly to me.

[annamere]

In German there is a similar distinction: 'Arbeiter' are just 'workers', whereas 'Angestellte' are hired i.e. they have a job contract.

[Dim-ond-dysgwr]

In organizations that have both directors and managers (directors are normally higher than managers) what words does Danish use to distinguish between the two roles?

[Jnwulff]

Manager could translate to "afdelingsleder " (department leader). An other word used for managers is "mellemledere" (between leaders"

[ecutler]

I learned "direktør" as CEO - is that wrong?

[Freddy824904]

Stupid me... using the employees......

[PabloEirin]

Why not to translate directøren as "the principal" or "the headmaster".

[Jnwulff]

The leader of a school is "inspektøren" "rektor" or "forstander"

[Nineminemutte]

I thought that arbejderne was staff? That's what I learned some lessons before. Why is it wrong?

[meira_lisette]

I believe you're thinking of 'personalet', which was in the previous lesson. Not sure as to how to know when to use which one, as I'm pretty beginner as well, but I tend to remember it as the difference between 'personnel' and 'workers'. One is hired, or employed, whereas the other one just works.

[geo_torno9]

...but they went on strike anyway. {It was a cotton farm w/ underpaid workers (͡ ° ͜ʖ ͡ °)}

[harriettso]

why aren't workers the same as workmen

[Dim-ond-dysgwr]

Because all workmen are workers, but not all workers are men -- a great many of them are women!

[Patsy536249]

Pronunciation of director is baaad.

[PirjoT]

I'd say staff. Ok?

[Martin633120]

Waiting for a moderator to answer why "the employees" cannot be used here for "arbejderne"