"Vad gör en domare?"

Translation: What does a judge do?

[NatalieBoa3]

In English we have "What DOES a judge DO?" and we use that verb form twice but in Swedish it is just gör once and seems to be like "What does a judge?".
Is this common in other constructions?

[davo.pribyl]

So you don't use the article with an occupation in normal sentence but in question it is necessary?

[yohnanen]

There is no article with an occupation word when using the verb "vara" (vara, är, var, varit), for example "I am a journalist" = "Jag är journalist".

[friswing]

Unless it's a question, and you really don't know what it is, 'en domare', the concept in itself. I suppose that kind of questions mainly are put by children or language students. :-)

[FionaUK]

I went with "What makes a judge?" – whilst I accept that that's not the translation they were looking for, is it technically correct or should I use a different phraseology to ask that?

[yibemajam]

How do you say he judges people?

[GlennaJo]

I wrote what is the judge doing and got it wrong. How would that be said in Swedish.

[JoseeV64]

I think that is: "Vad gör domaren?"