"Hur många arbetare har ni?"

Translation: How many workers do you have?

[JoshuaMadd2]

Is "arbetare" only applicable to "workers" and not "employees"? If so, is there another word for "employees"?

[Arnauti]

Yes, arbetare and workers are pretty much the same, and employees and anställda are a very good match with each other too.

[gdzierzon]

While that is true, isn't the question being asked here really about employees? Or is it common in Sweden to just have workers who are not employees? Because that is a not a common question for English. I would imagine that the meaning is what us important here, so Employees should be allowed as an answer.

[Rlando]

Workers are a special kind of employee. The number of employees in a company might be much higher than the number of workers...

[7pancakes]

what exactly is the difference?

[jonathan89434]

I believe worker tends to imply a manual laborer, while an employee is someone who is paid (by a company/ organization) to perform a function.

[Caro189389]

'Anställda' sounds pretty much like the German 'Angestellte' :)

[AlexisDela]

We say that we "arbetar" in a company. But we cannot say we are employees? I am an "anställd" amd I "arbetar" in my company...

[AlexNicholls93]

Employees / staff should be accepted, workers phrased like this in English is unnatural and has the potential to sound a bit derogatory.

[TessParker2]

I put “how many workers have you?” and it was marked wrong. Why? It is the same as “How many workers do you have?” I am a native British speaker. Tack så mycket.

[Robert163153]

I agree

[Joslen38610]

aye it works now i just said it like that and now it accepts it :)

[rabdan3]

Is staff wrong as well?

[Bauke947440]

Employees should be tolerated.

[Monica_bondevik]

Duolingo should probably be edited to the Swedish word for employee/s because asking how many workers you have doesn't read very well in English.

[javakaffe]

just to clarify: when you end with "do you have?" in swedish it is "har du" or "har ni"?

[Arnauti]

It depends on whether you mean plural (ni) or singular (du).

[Ninon.de.Lenclos]

"Hur många arbete har ni" would be "how much work do you have?"

[4oYBIxtO]

Hur mycket arbete har ni

[Ranskanainen]

What would be then the correct sentence in Swedish, whose translation would have the word "staff", if not accepted here?

[4oYBIxtO]

Hur många anställda har ni?

[TaliGassne]

if the V2 rule applies - then why is it not "Hur många har ni arbetare ?"

[Martin676218]

I put "how many employees do you have" and it was marked wrong!!

[4oYBIxtO]

Yes, ”employees” corresponds to “anställda”, which includes both “arbetare” and “tjänstemän”. (An Englishman would maybe say “blue-collar workers” and “white-collar workers”

[Martin676218]

I am a native English (GB) speaker. When we say "employees", we mean everybody who works at the company.