"Is the hotel by the airport?"

Translation: Ligger hotellet vid flygplatsen?

[cynyork]

What is the difference between vid and med?

[Zmrzlina]

In addition to what HelenCarlsson says, med is not a good word to mix up here, since ligga med means "to have sex with"...

[HelenCarlsson]

"Med" means "with" and "vid" is normally "at" or "by".

[marekpolacek]

Could vid be replaced by bredvid, please?

[HelenCarlsson]

Well, bredvid = next to :).

[marekpolacek]

Thanks! So the answer is yes, but it would be a slightly different sentence? : )

Actually, what i meant by my question was whether bredvid can be used freely, or just for objects, e.g. "Sverige ligger bredvid Finland" vs. "Bordet står bredvid skåpet."

[HelenCarlsson]

Exactly! "Bordet står bredvid skåpet" is a perfectly normal sentence, but when it comes to countries I would probably say "Sverige gränsar till Finland".

en gräns = a border
"gränsa" is the corresponding verb

[dksvenska]

what is the exact different between vid and bredvid though? or are they synonyms?

[zefatass]

Is it ok to say "Är det hotellet vid flygplatsen?"

[HelenCarlsson]

It is a correct sentence, but it means

Is it the hotel by the airport?

or, if det is stressed, "Is that hotel by the airport?" (Here, "ligger" sounds better than "är": "Ligger det hotellet vid flygplatsen?")

[NatalieBoa3]

I misread the English to mean this and that is why I translated it wrong.

[KatherineMaas]

I guess I still don't get the difference between står and liggar. I thought står was standing upright and liggar was lying down. Hotels seem more a stand-up sort of thing to me than a lying down one. Can someone explain this to me?

[HelenCarlsson]

Buildings and places "ligger" in Swedish and I agree, it doesn't make sense.

[jennifer856684]

can it be är hotellet vid flygplatsen

[devalanteriel]

Yes, though it's not as idiomatic.

[kvegg]

Is it wrong to use "nära" instead of "vid" here?

[HelenCarlsson]

Probably, since "nära" is close to or near.

[Reid_FL]

How is "vid" different than "förbi"?

[HelenCarlsson]

"Förbi flygplatsen" means "past the airport".

[Reid_FL]

Awesome, thanks!
So to clarify:
"vid" = "by" or "at",
"förbi" = "past" (as in past a location),
"nära" = "near" or "close to",
"med" = "with"

[Olweg]

Since I'm learning danish at the same time, I can't remember if I saw "ved" used in swedish or is it only in danish ? lol

[devalanteriel]

Well, the word exists in both languages but in Swedish it means "firewood". :p

[Olweg]

Haha ok, tack !

[ShreyaPai2]

"Hotellet ligger vid flygplatsen" is this right??

[devalanteriel]

In a sense, yes. Swedish and English can both turn most statements into questions by simple raising pitch at the end and adding a question mark. But we can't really do that in a language course - people wouldn't learn the "correct" way of phrasing questions.