Vi holder ofte nytår sammen med vores naboer den 31. december.

Yes, holde literally means to hold, but in Danish it is also very commonly used for celebrating holidays, parties, and special occasions.

So:

• holde jul = celebrate Christmas
• holde fødselsdag = celebrate a birthday
• holde nytår = celebrate New Year

You may also hear fejre, which also means to celebrate, but holde is especially common in everyday Danish with recurring events and holidays.

This is because Danish main clauses normally follow the verb-second rule.

In a normal statement, the finite verb usually comes in the second position:

• Vi holder ofte nytår ...

Here:

• Vi = subject
• holder = finite verb
• ofte = adverb

A native English speaker might expect something like Vi ofte holder, but that is not normal Danish word order.

A useful pattern is:

• subject + finite verb + adverb + rest

So:

• Jeg kommer ofte her.
• Han arbejder aldrig om søndagen.
• Vi holder ofte nytår sammen med vores naboer.

In Danish, names of holidays and celebrations often appear without an article when used in a general sense.

So you say:

• holde jul
• holde påske
• holde nytår

not usually:

• holde et nytår
• holde nytåret

Here nytår means the New Year celebration in a general sense, so no article is needed.

These are related, but not the same:

• nytår = New Year / the New Year celebration
• nytårsaften = New Year’s Eve
• det nye år = the new year, meaning the year that has just begun

In your sentence, holder nytår means celebrate New Year.

Examples:

• Vi holder nytår sammen med venner. = We celebrate New Year with friends.
• Nytårsaften er den 31. december. = New Year’s Eve is December 31.
• Jeg håber, det nye år bliver godt. = I hope the new year will be good.

Sammen med means together with, and it emphasizes that the people are celebrating as a group.

So:

• med vores naboer = with our neighbors
• sammen med vores naboer = together with our neighbors

Both can be possible in many contexts, but sammen med sounds more explicit and natural when you want to stress shared participation.

Because after a possessive word like min, din, hans, hendes, vores, jeres, deres, Danish normally uses the noun without the definite ending.

So:

• vores naboer = our neighbors
• mine venner = my friends
• deres bil = their car

Not:

• vores naboerne
• mine vennerne

This is different from English, where the noun form does not visibly change. In Danish, the possessive already makes the noun definite in meaning, so you do not also add the definite ending.

Vores means our.

It is the standard modern form and the one learners should use. There is also an older or more formal variant vore, but vores is what you will normally hear and see in everyday Danish.

Examples:

• vores hus = our house
• vores børn = our children
• vores naboer = our neighbors

In Danish, dates are commonly written and said with den before the day number:

• den 31. december
• den 5. maj
• den 1. januar

This is the normal way to express a calendar date.

When read aloud, 31. is usually pronounced as an ordinal date expression, so den 31. december is typically read as den enogtredivte december.

Time expressions are often placed later in Danish sentences, especially when the sentence already has a subject, verb, and other information first.

So this is natural:

• Vi holder ofte nytår sammen med vores naboer den 31. december.

But Danish is flexible, and you can move the date to the front if you want to emphasize it:

• Den 31. december holder vi ofte nytår sammen med vores naboer.

Notice what happens when the date moves to the front: the verb still stays in second position, so holder comes before vi. That is the Danish V2 pattern again.

Because Danish, like English, often uses the present tense for habitual or regular actions.

So Vi holder ofte nytår ... means something like:

• We often celebrate New Year ...
• We usually celebrate New Year ...

It does not have to mean only right now. The present tense can describe something that happens regularly.

Other examples:

• Vi rejser ofte til Sverige. = We often travel to Sweden.
• Hun arbejder om aftenen. = She works in the evenings.

Yes, absolutely. Fejrer means celebrate, and that sentence is grammatically correct.

• Vi fejrer ofte nytår sammen med vores naboer.

However, holde nytår is a very natural Danish expression, and many Danes would probably prefer it in this kind of sentence. So fejre is possible, but holde sounds especially idiomatic here.