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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 17 of 17 17 March 2012 at 1:34pm | IP Logged |
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Norwegian doesn't have a clear wash/clean distinction. As long as water is involved, I think vaske can be used.
We use vaske for just about everything. We say vaske golvet ("wash the floor") and vaske leiligheta ("wash the flat"). Cleaning staff is called such thing as vakedame ("washing lady") or vaskemann ("washing man") in everyday Norwegian, although their official name is renholder. There are many words for various aspects of cleaning: reingjøre, gjøre reint, pusse, rense, spyle, støvsuge etc. There's a synonym for vaske, tvette (the same word as Swedish tvätta), but it is archaic and alost never used in Norwegian. I don't think we have a Norwegian cognate for the Swedish word städa. We say gjøre reint or simply vaske instead. The Scandinavian word for Saturday is lørdag / laurdag / lördag. In Old Norse, laugardagr meant "washing day" or "bath day". Everybody would have a bath on Saturdays. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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