"Det er ikke altid dejligt når folk rører ved én."
Translation:It is not always nice when people touch you.
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"Det er ikke altid dejligt, når folk rører ved mig" would mean that it's not nice for me specifically, when people touch me, but I assume it might always be nice for other people when people touch them. "Det er ikke altid dejligt, når folk rører ved én" proposes as a general principle that it's not always nice when people touch you.
I can see this could be a problem for non-native English speakers.
We native English speakers don't use "one" very much any more, but use "you" to indicate "one" in general.
So a correct translation here would be " it's not always nice when people touch one" (not "oneself"), but you could only imagine the Queen saying this (she uses "one" when referring to herself).
So the normal way of saying this nowadays is "it's not always nice when people touch you" (not "me" because that's too specific) - it's a bit clumsy, but saying "one" sounds strange to us, so this is how we get round it.
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Good question. Both are grammatically correct. The differences between "røre" and "røre ved" are subtle. If I just say "Jeg rørte hende", it sounds like I just brushed her once. It emphasizes the bluntly physical phenomenon of two objects touching, perhaps by accident. If I say "Jeg rørte ved hende", it sounds more like a deliberate touch, emphasizing the psychological aspect of my feeling of touching someone or something. It is possible for two inanimate objects to "røre hinanden", but only conscious agents can "røre ved" something in a literal sense. At least it sounds odd if objects "rører ved hinanden". If you plan on touching someone for an extended period of time, you definitely want to "røre ved". At least that's my interpretation (as a native speaker) of these phrases.
I've asked around and there is a known issue with long sentences that because of their length show up in the correct order in tile exercises. But since you've left quite a few of these messages the last couple of days, and this sentence does not seem particularly long, could you please tell me more? What platform are you using, desktop, app, iphone/android etc? Is it only tiled exercises that is affected? If no, what types of exercises? Do you perhaps have some screenshots of the issue, or could you make some?