"Żołnierz pracuje obok granicy."

Translation: The soldier works next to the border.

[samrooney]

'the soldier works beside the border' was marked wrong for me. what is the difference between beside and by in this context?

[Laurence1070]

Near the border?

[alik1989]

That's rather blisko granicy.

[Laurence1070]

Thank you

[Moripolyglot]

Speaking of the migrant crisis?

[Tamara207217]

at first glance thought it was among grenades...

[DanielDabrowski]

Straz granicna

[MarkKulka]

I absolutely cannot detect any difference in the sounds of words like granica vs. granicy, dzielnica vs. dzielnicy, etc.