"Du er nær ved bondegårdene."

Translation: You are near the farms.

[JonkunKotona]

Could this sentence be said with only a "nær" or only a "ved"? Or do you need both?

[ZL321]

Yeah, I was going to comment on that too. Why is there a 'ved' AND a 'nær'?

[TimothyRevell]

Also confused, but is it like when you are 'inde i huset'?

[Hedebygade]

All three of you are right, there is no logical reason why we add those clearly redundant words, but we do. "Du er nær bondegården/du er ved bondegården" should be approved IMHO.

[aliovorsum]

If 'gården' means farm, why is the 'bonde', meaning 'peasant' there?

[Blkx-Darkreaper]

Gården is actually field or yard. Bonne is peasant, so the contracted noun of peasant yard is used for farm

[Veronica1694]

CONFUSED why naer ved closely by ....almost on top of....almost stepped on...i mean how close are we talking?

[Silke-Koch]

I put "nearly at" the farms. If that's incorrect, how would you put that? I feel like I saw "ved" used to mean 'at the airport' in a previous sentence.

[Sawteeth]

Is there any consistent rule for words ending with ene and erne?

[Lucia990165]

I have realized that the words which plural does not change, like "mus" and words which plural ends in "e" like "drenge", "huse", "heste"...have the "...ene" ending: musene, drengene, husene, hestene, but it has just been my inference through the course.