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Remoteness

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a remote rubber duck

Norwegian encodes remoteness as distance from the speaker and it features a binary distinction, that is, something is either close to the speaker or far from it.

Closeness of the figure to the speaker is encoded by 'her', while remoteness is coded by 'der'


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