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German words for logging and forestry.
Hi everyone,

I've recently been looking at German webpages on forestry and logging. I have an interest in that topic and Germany has the most non-English pages I found. I've found the German words for logger/lumberjack are Holzfäller, holzhacker, and forstwirt. Can you explain the difference between the words? And to make them feminine, as in a woman who works in that field, I ad an 'in' on the end, right?

And for chainsaw, I guess the proper German word is motorsägen, while Kettensäge is a transliteration, right? If I wanted to find "his chainsaw" or "her chainsaw" what would I add in front of the word?

Thanks,
Joel

Language pair: English; German

Joel
Scheuer
September 3, 2015

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