"He only has a towel on."
Translation:Han har bara en handduk på sig.
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Does bara have to go after har for this sentence to make sense or are other word orders acceptable too?
Bara has to go before the word it describes. Compare:
Han har bara en handduk på sig = He only has a towel on
Bara han har en handduk på sig = Only he has a towel on
han har på sig bara en handduk - not accepted
And this sounds most natural to my a-few-language-understanding ear. :)
Ögongodis (Does that work in Swedish?)
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It normally tells me I could have put "på sig" before the clothing item when I end the sentence with it. I complied this time, and it requured "på sig" at the end this time. Which is really more natural?
So is there just this word for a towel, not differentiating them by size (or rather use)? Since in my L1 we wouldn't call a big towel a 'handtowel'. It sounds strange having only a 'handduk' on because towels used for drying hands are usually quite small.
Apparently there are multiple words for towel that use handdukken as the base. https://ne.ord.se/ordbok/svenska/engelska/s%C3%B6k/towel
