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When we talk about washing<\/em> something in English, it can mean various things in various contexts. For example, we use the word wash<\/em> when we’re talking about washing clothes<\/em> or washing dishes<\/em>, or when you’re in the kitchen, washing the vegetables<\/em>. You wash your hair<\/em> and wash the car<\/em>.<\/p>\n Well, in Swedish, there are a few different words for washing<\/em> with important differences.<\/p>\n Tv\u00e4tta<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Tv\u00e4tta<\/em> is the word we use when we’re talking about washing something with a lot of water and soap. For example, we can tv\u00e4tta kl\u00e4der<\/em> “wash clothes”, tv\u00e4tta bilen<\/em> “wash the car”, and tv\u00e4tta h\u00e5ret<\/em> “wash one’s hair”. We can even simply tv\u00e4tta<\/em>, in which case we might say Jag ska tv\u00e4tta<\/span> imorgon<\/em>, “I’m going to do laundry<\/span> tomorrow”.<\/p>\n So far,\u00a0tv\u00e4tta<\/em> sounds like the basic equivalent to the English “wash”. But this doesn’t give the whole picture. For instance, you never Diska<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Diska<\/em> is the word we use when we want to talk about washing dishes or other supplies for cooking and eating. We can diska besticken<\/em> “wash the silverware\/cutlery”, diska ett glas \u00e5t Emilia<\/em> “wash a glass for Emilia”, or just diska<\/em> “wash the dishes” (UK “do the washing-up”). You would never To say that you use\u00a0diska<\/em> when washing “supplies for cooking and eating” is to be a bit vague; for instance, you can’t No – when washing food items or anything else with just plain water, we usually use the word sk\u00f6lja<\/em>:<\/p>\n Sk\u00f6lja<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Sk\u00f6lja<\/em> is the word we use when we talk about washing off fruit or vegetables when we get home from the grocery store. We generally don’t use soap, so sk\u00f6lja<\/em> is easily summarized in the English equivalent “rinse”! We can also use sk\u00f6lja<\/em> in other situations in which we would say “rinse” in English.<\/p>\n The key difference here is that tv\u00e4tta<\/em> and diska<\/em> involve soap, while sk\u00f6lja<\/em> does not. Between tv\u00e4tta<\/em> and diska<\/em>, diska<\/em> involves dishes, whereas tv\u00e4tta<\/em> is used when washing anything else with soap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we talk about washing something in English, it can mean various things in various contexts. For example, we use the word wash when we’re talking about washing clothes or washing dishes, or when you’re in the kitchen, washing the vegetables. You wash your hair and wash the car. Well, in Swedish, there are…<\/p>\ntv\u00e4ttar tallrikarna<\/em><\/s> “wash the plates” – in that specific case, we use diska<\/em>:<\/p>\ntv\u00e4tta besticken<\/em><\/s> or tv\u00e4tta ett glas<\/em><\/s> – that just doesn’t make sense in Swedish!<\/p>\ndiska ett \u00e4pple<\/em><\/s> “wash an apple”! You can’t really tv\u00e4tta ett \u00e4pple<\/em><\/s> with tv\u00e4tta<\/em> either, unless it’s the very rare occasion in which you might use soap. (Does anyone do that?)<\/p>\n