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I still find it extremely hard to understand the sentences only listening to them. The word order is tricky sometimes. Do you think it is normal? Do you have any suggestions? Tack :)
In the context of trusting, it's always lita på. Generally speaking, though, på is a preposition meaning "on".
They're slightly different; I don't think they should both be accepted here.
devalanteriel is right. They are different.
"To believe in someone" is when you know someone can do/achieve something.
"To trust someone" is when you believe what someone tells you.
"count on" means räkna med, I don't think it's quite the same as to trust.
Yes and no - they're usually interchangeable in English, but a worker does not technically have to perform physical labour.
The Swedish arbetare does not have any such connotation, though - it could be anybody performing some kind of job. If we translate that to "labourer" we definitely miss that point.
Yes, we use anställd for the former. Although there's some overlap in practice, just as in English.
There is no difference - "don't" is just a contraction of "do not".
Arguably, but it's extremely unidiomatic, to the point of being unacceptable. Most natives would probably consider it ungrammatical, even.
No, that doesn't work at all. What English source sentence did you have in mind?
I think they mean to say "the workers have no trust for the boss", but it was said in swedish incorrectly
Ah, thanks - that makes sense! We'd say Arbetarna har inget förtroende för chefen in that case. :)
A chef in English works in kitchen. A chef in Swedish is a manager.
Would it be right to say "the workers do not trust THEIR boss/sin chef" or do you need to say "the boss" instead of "their boss"?
