Jeg bor i et roligt kvarter tæt på metroen og en lille kiosk ved broen.

Because kvarter is a neuter noun in Danish, so it takes the article et, not en.

In Danish, nouns have two grammatical genders:

• common gender: takes en
• neuter gender: takes et

So:

• en by = a city
• et kvarter = a neighborhood / district

The adjective must match the noun too, which is why you get roligt with -t here.

The adjective gets -t because it describes a singular neuter noun: et kvarter.

So the pattern is:

• en rolig gade = a calm street
• et roligt kvarter = a calm neighborhood

This is standard adjective agreement in Danish for indefinite singular neuter nouns.

In Danish, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun as a suffix.

So:

• en metro = a metro
• metroen = the metro

and:

• en bro = a bridge
• broen = the bridge

This is one of the biggest differences from English. Instead of saying a separate word like the metro, Danish often says metroen.

Because kiosk is a common gender noun, so it takes en.

So:

• en kiosk = a kiosk
• en lille kiosk = a small kiosk

Even though lille looks the same for both genders here, the article still has to match the noun’s gender.

Because lille is irregular.

Many Danish adjectives change like this:

• rolig → roligt in neuter singular

But lille usually stays lille:

• en lille kiosk
• et lille hus

So unlike many adjectives, it does not add -t in the neuter singular.

Tæt på is a fixed expression meaning close to or near.

Examples:

• Jeg bor tæt på skolen = I live close to the school
• Hun sidder tæt på mig = She is sitting close to me

It works as a phrase, so learners usually remember it as one unit:

• tæt på metroen = close to the metro

They express different kinds of location:

• i et roligt kvarter = in a quiet neighborhood
• tæt på metroen = close to the metro
• ved broen = by / near / at the bridge

So:

• i usually means in
• på has many uses, but in tæt på it is part of the expression close to
• ved often means by, near, or at

Danish uses prepositions differently from English sometimes, so these are worth learning as chunks.

Because the sentence coordinates two places after the first location phrase:

• tæt på metroen
• og en lille kiosk ved broen

This means the speaker lives close to the metro and also close to a small kiosk by the bridge.

Danish often leaves out repeated words when the meaning is still clear. In fuller form, you could imagine:

• ... tæt på metroen og tæt på en lille kiosk ved broen

But the shorter version is natural.

Most naturally, ved broen describes the kiosk.

So the likely structure is:

• en lille kiosk ved broen = a small kiosk by the bridge

That means the sentence most naturally says:

• I live in a quiet neighborhood close to the metro and close to a small kiosk that is by the bridge.

Grammatically, Danish often places a prepositional phrase right after the noun it modifies, so ved broen is understood as attached to kiosk.

Yes. This is the normal word order for a simple main clause in Danish:

• subject + verb + other elements

So:

• Jeg = subject
• bor = verb
• i et roligt kvarter ... = the rest of the sentence

This is the same basic order as English:

• I live in a quiet neighborhood ...

Yes. Kvarter can also mean quarter in some contexts, especially as a unit of time, as in et kvarter = a quarter of an hour / fifteen minutes.

But in this sentence, because of roligt and the location phrases, it clearly means neighborhood or district.

So Danish learners need to choose the meaning from context.

Because both are common gender nouns in the definite singular.

The common pattern is:

• en noun → -en in the definite form

Examples:

• en bro → broen
• en kiosk → kiosken
• en metro → metroen

If a noun is neuter, it usually takes -et instead:

• et kvarter → kvarteret

Yes, in many contexts nær can also mean near.

For example:

• Jeg bor nær metroen

But tæt på is very common in everyday Danish and often feels a bit more natural in speech. Both are useful, but tæt på is a very common phrase to learn early.

Bor is the ordinary everyday verb for live in the sense of where someone lives.

Examples:

• Jeg bor i København = I live in Copenhagen
• Hvor bor du? = Where do you live?

It can correspond to English reside, but in normal speech and writing, bo is the standard word. It is not especially formal.