"The animals live up there."

Translation: Dyrene lever der oppe.

[hmada993]

Is "oppe der" incorrect or strange?

[grydolva]

Both. But change one letter and it is good to go:)

Oppå der. Which in essence is a compounded oppe på der. It changes the meaning into "on top of there" but in some contexts they are indeed interchangeable, either der oppe or oppå der.

[hmada993]

takk.

[FLchick]

June 29, 2018 "Dyra lever oppå der." is NOT accepted.

[TristinKnapp]

I think that's because you used "Dyra" as opposed to "Dyrene".

[Navan14]

Jan 18, 2019 I used "dyrene lever oppå der" and its still not working!

[Rich.Smith]

What is the difference between "lever" and "bor"? Both seem to mean "to live."

[Luke_5.1991]

"Bor" means "reside/resides" and is used a lot more than its English equivalent.

[Krzysztof799781]

How do I know which is meant here: reside a live. Because to me this is ambiguous and I can see how to choose one or the other.

[Estaban429727]

Is it that humans reside (bor) while animals only live (lever)? Seems okay until DL wants us to deal with androids and little green people

[FLchick]

I used lever for a sentence that had the word "lives" (as in He lives...) and was graded as incorrect and advised that bor is the proper response.

[Gregith]

Why is it "der oppe" instead of "oppe der"

[Bruce-CallMeSoda]

Well, seeing how no knowledgeable person has chimed in, I'll just make the totally non-native observation that we have learned words like "derfra" and "herfra", literally "there from" and "here from", so it appears that Norwegians like to put the prepositions after "there" and "here"...? (again, just my non-native observation). So, "der oppe" is "there up", or as we would say in English, "up there". Are Norwegians wondering why we English speakers are putting the preposition first? Dunno. By the way, for fun I tried to make one word, "deroppe", along the lines of "derfra", but DL told me I was missing a space.

[Aryankedavra]

[Not my answer! Stole it from another thread]

So, the pattern is: when you have a word modifying an adverb of place, it comes after the adverb of place. Eg:

“Der borte” = “over there”
"Her i landet” = literally “here, in this country”

Off the top of my head, I can only think of English word that sort of functions the same way: “enough”. When “enough” modifies a word, it follows rather than precedes it:

“Good enough”
“Strong enough”

[xxlisaaa_]

Exactly my question

[TakThehideous]

And apparently getting a clear answer to that is a hard pressed venture.

[MagaliBi]

Is "dyra" another form for "dyrene" ?

[grydolva]

They are interchangeable plural forms, -a usually considered the radical form and -ene considered the conservative.

[Chris-Keefe]

Are radical/conservative sociopolitical distinctions in this context, or linguistic?

[_Leo.S_]

I put 'dryene bor oppe der' and it is marked incorrect. Is it grammatically incorrect or is it just another Duolingo strange stuff?

[HellBilly6669]

Why "der oppe" instead of "oppe der?" Takk!

[AlyxP7055]

I don't understand when to use opp or oppe..

[A5Sfj]

This is my understanding: when there is movement involved you drop the e at the end of the word. When there is no movement, keep the e. Some examples would be "Katten er oppe i treet". vs. "Katten hopper opp i treet." (movement- so oppe becomes opp) or "Jeg er hjemme." vs. "Jeg går hjem." (movement - so hjemme becomes hjem).