"Vem ligger bredvid mig?"

Translation: Who is lying next to me?

[jaxxist]

Could this also be "Who is next to me?"

[bonoetmalo]

Cursed by my own English shortcomings by saying "lay" instead of "lie". 19 and I still never do that right.

[DrMicroChem]

I'm going to take a shot at freeing you of this particular grammar curse:
Lay: to place or put something down. Lay is transitive and takes a object.
Lie: to recline. Lie is intransitive and does not take an object.
Example:
I lie down. (no object)
I lay myself down. (myself serves as the object)
The ball is lying on the table (ball is the subject, not object)
I lay the ball on the table. (ball is the object).
When my children would jump on the bed I would say, "Lie down, before I lay you down!" - but I never did make them into direct objects! ;-)
Hope this helps.

[Sumclut]

Lay is also the past tense of lie, IIRC

[MaryBeth378619]

You can lie with your mouth or your person but you lay with your hands.

[Christina982811]

Too much tequila??

[HoroTanuki]

sounds like a beginning of a horror movie XD

[ezupo1]

Or after having spent a night out on the town.

[Cydco]

Yes, a rather disquieting sentence.

[Xxq04ezm]

I must have missed something when "ligger" was first introduced... in my notes I only have "is situated/is located" as the meaning. So, it is "lie/lying" also, obviously. So why isn't it/can't it be "who IS next to me", and does it HAVE to be "who is LYING next to me?" A bit confused now.

[Steph.Ro]

I believe att ligga means to lie/to be situated which are actually the same, as in "I'm from Durham." - "Where's that?" - "It lies/is (situated) just south of Newcastle."

[Earthwiz]

Vem ligger bredvid mig?
The Norwegian architect?

[KirMelissa]

"Who is lying next to me"- we will definitely need this in Sweden

[jstnc]

I accidentally left out the space between vem and ligger and it found no errors?

[Zmrzlina]

Often, the duo software will accept very minor errors.

[SunnySundquist]

So, would you say, 'Vem står/sitter bredvid mig', but never 'Vem är bredvid mig' if they are standing/sitting next to me?