"The boy cuts with a knife and the girl cuts with scissors."
Translation:Pojken skär med en kniv och flickan klipper med en sax.
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For those who learn both Swedish and German, it is weird that the German noun Schere means scissors. The German verb is schneiden, no matter whether you use a knife or scissors, but there is also a verb scheren, for example to shear a sheep or to trim a man's beard. So the common root of the Swedish and German words has developed to different meanings.
For a scythe (en lie) there's a special word, slå, 'beat' or 'hit'. If you use a sickle (en skära) though, it would be skära. I think the machines are seen as having a scissor-like mechanism inside them, but sickles and scythes obviously haven't. A barber/hairdresser can skära hair too, if they use unconventional tools like a razor blade, and the emphasis is on that they don't klipper, but skär.
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Is it idiomatic in Swedish to say that you 'skär med en kniv' or 'klipper med en sax'? If there are different words for different types of cutting, then I'm guessing just 'pojken skär' and 'flickan klipper' are enough and the including the rest sounds redundant.
It doesn't sound too strange here since the sentence is clearly about the contrast between the two activities. It would be at least as unexpected to say Pojken skär och flickan klipper, because then you'd wonder what they're cutting. But in other contexts of course it's usually enough to say just klipper or skär.
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What happens with a scalpel, laser, sword, or other objects? Are there specific cutting terms for them or does Swedish only differentiate between these two terms?
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So basically skär is a little more violent or stronger than klipper. I can skär with a sword, a knife, a broken glass everything, and can be by an accident or intentional... and klippar it's just for my hair, the grass, the clothes, the paper and it's always intentional. Right? If i cut myself with a paper (by accident) i skär myself?
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the english is 'a knife' and 'scissors,' not 'a pair of scissors,' so klipper med sax is fine