pesukerta

English translation: wash frequency

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Finnish term or phrase:pesukertojen tiheys
English translation:wash frequency
Entered by: Jonathan Widell

14:33 Nov 9, 2005
Finnish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Furniture / Household Appliances
Finnish term or phrase: pesukerta
pesukertojen tiheys säädettävissä 1 kertaa / vrk - 1 kerta / kk.
Jonathan Widell
Canada
Local time: 06:54
wash
Explanation:
ja pesukertojen tiheys: wash frequency
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Jussi Rosti
Finland
Local time: 12:54
Grading comment
Erittäin hyvä ilmaus tuo wash frequency
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3wash
Jussi Rosti
4 +1how often you wash them
Spencer Allman
4wash cycle
Setti Mulari


  

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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
wash cycle


Explanation:
Tuota ainakin kaytetaan... toimiiko sitten sun tarkoituksessa on eri asia.

Setti Mulari
New Zealand
Local time: 23:54
Native speaker of: Native in FinnishFinnish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
how often you wash them


Explanation:
So I guess it means

'How often you wash them can vary from once a week to once a month'

Spencer Allman
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Setti Mulari: Toimii
2 hrs
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
wash


Explanation:
ja pesukertojen tiheys: wash frequency

Jussi Rosti
Finland
Local time: 12:54
Native speaker of: Native in FinnishFinnish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Erittäin hyvä ilmaus tuo wash frequency

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Setti Mulari: Toimii myös
2 hrs
  -> Kiitos, Setti!

agree  Heikki Särkkä: Alternatively: Frequency of washes can be varied between...
3 hrs
  -> Kiitos, Heikki!

agree  Alfa Trans (X)
14 hrs
  -> Kiitos, Marju!

neutral  Spencer Allman: This collocation does not exist in the University of Birmingham Cobuild corpus (56+ million words of text) and does not sound very natural to me, but who knows?
1 day 1 hr
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