"The girl wears clothes."

Translation: Flickan har på sig kläder.

[robertzhu]

Would "Flickan har kläder på sig", be more natural to say in this context? Thanks!!

[Arnauti]

Both sound perfectly OK, but I looked it up and it turns out "har kläder på sig" is used a bit more often.

[hallristning]

Would you mind sharing how you look up how common a phrase is?

Sometimes if I'm unsure if I'm wording something correctly, I try googling the phrase to see if I get any matching hits.

Is there a better way of doing this?

[Arnauti]

The best way to check is using the corpora in Korp. Google can give you a hint, but its results are sometimes misleading.

[Ceern]

How would you say "he wears a hat" (often), as opposed to "he is wearing a hat" (right now)?

[jarrettph]

Han brukar ha på sig en hatt maybe?

[RyanED]

What if the clothes don't belong to the girl? Would we still use "sig"?

[Zmrzlina]

"Ha på sig" only means "to wear". If we were talking about ownership, we'd use some other construct.

[RyanED]

Oh. So it just changes from "sig" to "dig" and so on, depending on the person(s) wearing it?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes, that is right. Jag har på mig, du har på dig, hon har på sig, vi har på oss etc...

[LiniLove]

As a native German I wonder if there is a pl./sg. for "clothes" or "kläder". Thanks for helping.