"Vi spiser aftensmad langs kanten af vandet."

Translation: We eat dinner along the edge of the water.

[ycUvuSap]

Surely "...by the edge..." is better English than "...along the edge...", unless, I guess, you are moving along the edge while dining.

[mgeisler]

Does water really have an "edge"? Would it not be better to use a word like "shore" or "bank"?

[orfeocookie]

There's even a restaurant in my home town CALLED "Water's Edge", so yes.

[-HKBK-]

With bank you would be referring to 'the bank of the river' not of 'the water'

[mgeisler]

Thanks all for the comments!

[dreamloomer]

What's wrong with "We eat dinner along the water's edge"?

[FrankSauvage]

Amen to that.

[Max.Em]

Waterkant? Lower German for coast, literally water edge... I wonder if there's a similar expression in Denmark.

[Jane531211]

Brings up images of the dinner dotted along the water's edge - along implying movement. By the water's edge, that's stationary. Chase that moving mad.

[Irma177007]

why not 'water's edge

[scalambra]

In both Danish and English a different preposition would work better, since there is no movement along the waterfront. "Vi spiser aftensmad ved vandkanten" - "We are having dinner by the water".

[Nadine902473]

Why is 'have dinner' not accepted as a possible translation? It's certainly more common in English than 'eat dinner'

[Angus4689]

Edge = side

[fred371888]

'We eat dinner at the edge of the water' means the same thing!