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nearby

English

Adjective

nearby ‎(comparative more nearby, superlative most nearby)

adjacent, near, very close
He stopped at a nearby store for some groceries.

Translations

adjacent

Armenian:
Basque:
Dutch: dichtbij (nl)
Esperanto: apuda
Finnish: lä****ä (fi)
French: proche (fr) m, f
Gallurese: accultu
German: in der Nähe
Greek: κοντινός (el) ‎(kontinós)
Italian: accanto (it)
Khmer:
Lao:
Malagasy: akaiky (mg)
Mongolian:

Norwegian:
Bokmål: nærliggende
Portuguese: próximo (pt)
Sardinian:

Campidanese: affaccu

Logudorese: affacca
Sassarese: accostu
Scots: naurby
Slovak: blízky; vedľajší
Spanish: cercano (es) m, cercana f, próximo (es) m
Sundanese: dengket
Swedish: i närheten, nära (sv)
Thai:
Vietnamese: gần; bên cạnh đó
Volapük: nilik (vo)

Adverb

nearby ‎(comparative more nearby, superlative most nearby)

next to, close to
I'm glad my friends live nearby where I can visit them.

Translations

close to

Chamicuro: a'lotsi'ta
Chinese:
Mandarin: 在附近 (zh) ‎(zài fùjìn)
Czech: blízko (cs)
Dutch: dichtbij (nl), nabij (nl)
French: à proximité (fr)
German: nebenan (de), in der Nähe, nah (de)
Greek: κοντά (el) ‎(kontá)
Hindi: पास (hi) ‎(pās), पास में (hi) ‎(pās mẽ)
Italian: vicino (it) (a)
Japanese: 近くに (ja) ‎(chikaku-ni)
Khmer:
Korean: 가까이에 (ko) ‎(gakkaie)
Lao:
Lithuanian: arti (lt)

Lojban: vi (jbo)
Novial: proximu
Polish: blisko (pl)
Portuguese: próximo (pt)
Russian: побли́зости (ru) ‎(poblízosti), бли́зко (ru) ‎(blízko), ря́дом (ru) ‎(rjádom), неподалёку (ru) ‎(nepodaljóku)
Slovak: vedľa, blízko, nablízku
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: blisko
Spanish: cerca (es)
Sundanese: dengket
Swedish: i närheten
Urdu: پاس ‎(pās), پاس میں ‎(pās mẽ)
Vietnamese: gần (vi), bên cạnh (vi), gần đây (vi)
Volapük: nilo (vo)

Usage notes

Some British writers make the distinction between the adverbial near by, which is written as two words; and the adjectival nearby, which is written as one. In American English, the one-word spelling is standard for both forms.

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