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English translation: journeyman (craftsman)

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Danish term or phrase:	håndværkssvende
English translation:	journeyman (craftsman)
Entered by:	Michael J.H. Davies

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15:00 Dec 15, 2009

Danish to English translations [PRO]
Other / employment

Danish term or phrase: håndværkssvende

This term is from a website concerning the migration of Swedish workers to i.a. Denmark in the late 19th century where the following sentence appears:

Svenske mænd var i det hele taget i vid udstrækning beskæftiget indenfor beklædningsrelateret produktion såsom skrædderi-, skomageri- og handskemageri. I 1882 var halvdelen af de svenskfødte ** håndværkssvende **og medhjælpere i København – 1.005 af 2.011 – aktive indenfor disse fag.

Michael J.H. Davies KudoZ activity Questions: 36 (1 open) (1 without valid answers) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 105 Denmark
Local time: 08:41

journeyman (craftsman)

Explanation:
'journeyman' or 'journeyman craftsman'

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http://ordbog.gyldendal.dk/

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This is not a work you will meet much any more. I suppose this whole concept is archaic, since the mode of working and organising work has changed utterly since then.

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Diarmuid Kennan
Ireland
Local time: 07:41

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Thanks Diarmuid - although I had already found the word you have suggested, I was in some doubt as to whether it was in fact correct. You have confirmed that it is the right word to use. :-)
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journeyman (craftsman)

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journeyman (craftsman)

Diarmuid Kennan
Ireland
Local time: 07:41
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Thanks Diarmuid - although I had already found the word you have suggested, I was in some doubt as to whether it was in fact correct. You have confirmed that it is the right word to use. :-)

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Asker: Thanks Diarmuid - yes, I found the 'journeyman' translation in my (on-line) Gyldendals Red Dictionary too. I just have never encountered the word in English - is it perhaps archaic?

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