• Ambiorickx@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 年前

    Isn’t “Arbeitsnehmer” one who takes labor? I would think the worker gives his or her labor, and the industrialist takes it.

    • Exusgu@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 年前

      Here “arbeit” translates to “job” better than “labour”. One provides the job, the other takes the job (and consequently does the labour).

        • dafo@lemmy.world
          131·
          1 年前

          English is an inferior language because it does not combine words into one when it would make sense to do so to avoid confusion.

          Change my mind.

          • fl42v@lemmy.ml
            5·
            1 年前

            They use dashes, which is more readable (“self-sufficient”, and similar stuff), although idk if that’s what you meant

            • dafo@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 年前

              I’ve been trying to think of an example, the only one I could think of is “assault rifle”. In Swedish, where we contract words, it would be “assaultrifle”, so it’s clear you’re not encouraging someone to beat up a rifle.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 年前

      In Dutch we have werknemer and werkgever.

      Werknemer takes work (person with a job)

      Werkgever gives work (company hiring people)