"Politiet stiller manden nær huset."

Translation: The police places the man near the house.

[Fiery70]

Most incoherent English sentence ever!

[hippietrail]

I see you're new to Duolingo (-:

[Radwinter]

It's absolute rubbish! Careless stupid mistake

[Pat211087]

Does this mean that the police physically place the man near the house or does it mean that from evidence e.g. CCTV, they can prove that the man was near the house? It is a very strange unlikely sentence.

[hippietrail]

If they correct places to place it's not unlikely at all.

[Siobhan009]

Does Politiet here mean the police as a group, or is it one person? (I understood it to mean the group, so it'd be "place", otherwise it'd be "The policeman places...")

[Olweg]

policeman is politimand in danish, so it's the police as an institution/group here I guess.

[Siobhan009]

Thank you.

[YuliGunn]

Just bad English which ever way you translate it...

[ilmolleggi]

Is this place as in deploy or what?

[sparrowhawk28]

Doesn't make sense in English!

[marieb73]

Im not native english but i think it should be "place" without an s.

[Zet955992]

It feels like there have been so many different words for the verb to put / place! Is there any difference between them depending on meaning or context?

[FransRoggen]

thought that police was plural.

[Michael.Lubetsky]

Native English speaker here. It should be the police place (or at least, that should be accepted). But there is nobody monitoring error reports so it will probably stay wrong for a while.

[Richard446785]

Makes no sense at all

[Lumen3]

another English incomprehensible sentence. Has it got any meaning in Danish and it is just a poor translation, or is the Danish sentence just as meaningless??

[DavidSkj]

Can anyone explain when to use nær and when to use ved?

[DylanMartn8]

did you find a reply?