fixarbänk

English translation: workbench

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Swedish term or phrase:fixarbänk
English translation:workbench
Entered by: Deane Goltermann

10:29 Oct 21, 2015
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Furniture / Household Appliances / möbel
Swedish term or phrase: fixarbänk
Han går fram till fixarbänken vid fönstret som är fördraget med gråskirt tyg och gör om allt.
Florin Hulubei
Local time: 11:08
workbench
Explanation:
Looking for more context ... like Chris. Are you indoors (sewing, handicrafts, etc), in the garage/shed, or ...) But this suggestion covers a wide range of activities, which corresponds to the ambiguity of your term.
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Deane Goltermann
Sweden
Local time: 10:08
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Summary of answers provided
5fitting bench
George Hopkins
3 +2workbench
Deane Goltermann
4 +1table with all kinds of gadgets and tools
Charlesp
3fix-it bench
Agneta Pallinder


Discussion entries: 2





  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
fitting bench


Explanation:
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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-10-21 13:27:16 GMT)
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Perhaps you can find your particular 'fitting bench' in Google images...

George Hopkins
Local time: 10:08
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 17
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
workbench


Explanation:
Looking for more context ... like Chris. Are you indoors (sewing, handicrafts, etc), in the garage/shed, or ...) But this suggestion covers a wide range of activities, which corresponds to the ambiguity of your term.

Deane Goltermann
Sweden
Local time: 10:08
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SwedishSwedish
PRO pts in category: 24
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charlesp: in a direct sense, yea.
57 mins
  -> Thanks, Charles!

agree  sans22 (X)
1 hr
  -> Thanks!
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
table with all kinds of gadgets and tools


Explanation:
could be.

Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 10:08
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Deane Goltermann: Good one... but a lot of words for very little context!
1 hr
  -> I was trying to be expressive.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
fix-it bench


Explanation:
I'm suggesting this because in the sentence Florin quotes I detect a sense that the "he" who goes to fixarbänken does this a lot, and "gör om allt", because he sees himself as a Mr Fix-it, in a way that undermines the competence of the person who had "gjort det" before he "gjorde om det".

Agneta Pallinder
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:08
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Deane Goltermann: Can go along with this in specific contexts...
39 mins
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