"Personalen arbetar på helgen."

Translation: The staff work during the weekend.

[lkgponygirl]

Another good translation: The staff works weekends.

[JDLENL]

Only, it doesn't accept that.

[devalanteriel]

That would be arbetar (på) helger.

[Kim197311]

Perhaps, the staff work weekends? Meaning the staff members (plural) work (plural) ?

[Trev94576]

That's what i wrote. Wrong of course.

[devalanteriel]

Yes, for the same reason I mentioned above.

[Zek256]

In english the correct way to say it is "The staff is working on the weekend." The staff counts as a single entity. Just like you say "The couple is getting married." You dont say "The couple are getting married"

[devalanteriel]

Both ways actually work - the plural version is quite common in the UK, especially.

[karolhodur]

In proper English, the plural is actually correct. Staff is a collective noun, similarly to police. Hence, even though staff isn't plural per se, it requires plural verb endings.

[RebeccaCalkins]

I made a few reports because there seem to be many possible translations that should be accepted and aren't.
"The staff work through the weekend."
"The staff work over the weekend."
"The staff work the weekend."
All of these sound natural to me, a native English speaker. Is there any reason why they should not be accepted? (Aside from that Duolingo doesn't recognize it for mechanical reasons, of course.)

[sotnosen93]

Is "The staff works over the weekend." an acceptable translation or is there some reason "over" doesn't work in this sentence?

[emily823504]

This is what I came in to ask. As a native English speaker, I would say "over the weekend" not "during the weekend." That doesn't mean "during" is wrong in English. I think they are both right.

[DogePamyuPamyu]

Is personal an always plural word? Like staff refers to a lot of people, but you can also say a single staff member. What would be the singular, eller är det samma sak?

[Arnauti]

Some people use personal as a countable noun, but that is not considered correct by most. So we'd say en i personalen 'a member of staff' or en anställd 'an employee' instead.

[Zmrzlina]

It's most often used as a mass noun. It can be used as en personal, två personal etc too, but that use is very rare outside the world of staff management.

[Deborah431585]

The staff works on weekends is wrong?

[devalanteriel]

Yes, since weekends in the plural would almost always be phrased differently, it would be presumed that this is about a single weekend.

[QGloaf]

Why is "The employees work in the weekend" not acceptable?

[NatalieBoa3]

It has to be "on" the weekend, since "in" makes it sound like the weekend is a physical thing.

[FarfarTom]

Why is "The personnel work during the weekend" not correct? Personnel and staff to me are the same.

[devalanteriel]

That translation is accepted - but it had a typo. I've fixed that now. :)

[alexbfree]

I put "the staff work the weekend", it's a bit colloquial i suppose but would it still be a valid translation?

[Mlle_Leah]

Am I the only one who immediately thought "Why these people have to work for a moose ?"

[oldestguru]

Shouldn't be "The staff workS during the weekend"?

[devalanteriel]

Either way works, depending on whether you prefer to look at the staff as a single unit or as all of its members. Usage mostly varies by region.