"Ellos son mis empleados."
Translation:They are my employees.
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what if they are co-ed or mixed employees? Will that be empleadas or empleados?
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General rule for mixed groups is using the same form that for masculine. So, empleados
D's in the middle of Spanish words for the most part are pronounced th like sábado
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At Boeing all those hard at work in the assembly building are not staff members.
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Spanish rule of thumb: plural all the things!
Mis is the plural of mi so since we pluralized employees we also pluralize ourself.
Even the adjectives get pluralized. Like in "mis empleados temporales" we pluralized me, temporary, and employee.
From what I understand, there is a separate word for "worker" and "employee" just like there is in English. obrero = worker (like working class). empleado = employee.
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Employees by definition must have a wage or salary. Your kid may help you clean house and be “a good worker." They aren't the same word in either language. A worker is one who does work, but an employee is one who has an agreement to do work for a certain amount of pay. They are related (hopefully) but don't have to be. You may have a slave or a volunteer who is a worker but don't meet the definition of employee.
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Worker is trabajador (as noun). Comes from work in English, and comes from trabajar in Spanish
They work for me. Not valid because I mistranslated or because its not literal enough?
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Likely, it did not accept your translation because you used the word, 'work' (trabajo) when they used the word, 'employees' (empleados).
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This is a sets and subsets issue, and my guess is what is meant will vary from area to area, poor regions will use employee for everyone, because most workers are employees and do labour. I think it is not unreasonable to say labourers is a possible translation, but given they get sticky with other open options it seems funny to be open with this one. I bet other translators would not agree with labourers being acceptable. My big Spanish dictionary only has employees or Shop Assistants and the latter only for South America.
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WOW! This is my first time spelling this 1st try and i got it right. but no offense to any body who likes this website but i HATE this website... SORRY DUOLINGO!