"Byen ligger i en dal."

Translation: The city is in a valley.

[TheRoofRabbit]

Would "dal" be a precursor to the English "dale"?

[Deliciae]

They share a common Germanic root.

[stfzzed]

In Serbian we say "dolina", sometimes even "dol" in poetry

[m.g.doyle]

I'm sure it's from the same Indo-European root. The word is dolina in many Slavic languages, including Macedonian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian. In Czech, Slovak and Belarusian it's a bit different but still has the "dol/dal" root.

[John700432]

Why would "the city lies in a valley" be marked wrong? Doesn't "ligge" also mean "to lie?" In English this would be a perfectly acceptable way of saying it.