"Du musst es von hier aus betrachten."

[yaliyev]

What role does "aus" play here?

[jgesner]

I have the same question

[phle]

and me, it seems "from" is twice there - "von" and "aus"

[Vindalf]

Fourthed, I'd say the sentence is fine without aus.

[PatriciaJH]

Pons sez, that's how you say "view something from somewhere": von etw (dat) aus betrachten.

"It from here look out at" I suppose. It does seem like a lot of prepositions.

to view sth [from sth] -- etw [von etw dat aus] betrachten

(and we want the bits which are inside the brackets.)

http://de.pons.eu/dict/search/results/?q=aus+betrachtenl=deenin=lf=de