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| shadowzoid Groupie United States Joined 5523 days ago 76 posts - 85 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 7 25 May 2009 at 1:17am | IP Logged | ||
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is this phrase correct?
liebt nicht Hausaufgabe, aber ist glücklich denn da ist keine Schule morgen i want to say "don't like" or "hate", but i only know "love" and so i used "does not love". is the phrase correct? is "ist glücklich" correct, or must I add "er"? and why must it be keine Schule, not nein schule? similiarly, why is it "Ich verstehe keine Englisch", which is litterally "I understand no English", instead of "Ich verstehe nicht Englisch", which is "I dont understand English"? is it an idiom? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6286 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 2 of 7 25 May 2009 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||
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"Ich habe Hausaufgabe nicht (sehr) gern, aber ich bin glücklich, dass es morgen keinen Unterricht gibt."
Nein = no, oppose of ja = yes. Kein(e) = negative indefinite article. Where did you hear / read "ich verstehe keine Englisch"? That's incorrect. "Englisch" is neuter, not feminine, so it should actually be "Ich verstehe kein Englisch." A more probable phrase (at least in my mind) would be "Ich verstehe Englisch nicht." What are you studying with? Whatever it is, based on your recent questions, it's doing a fairly awful job of introducing you to the basics of German grammar. Check out Assimil's German with Ease, or Rosenberg's (old) German: How to Speak and Write It. Edited by josht on 25 May 2009 at 4:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shadowzoid Groupie United States Joined 5523 days ago 76 posts - 85 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 3 of 7 25 May 2009 at 5:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Your correction is saying "I have no homework (very) happy". my original phrase was "(he) does not love homework". why you change it to "not have", which is the complete opposite?
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6286 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 4 of 7 25 May 2009 at 5:38am | IP Logged | ||
Sorry. It's a standard way of saying you're not fond of something, "etwas nicht gern haben", e.g.: Ich habe Kaffee nicht gern = I don't like coffee. If you want it to be stronger than that, you could say "Er hasst* Hausaufgabe." = He hates homework. *hassen = to hate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6212 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 7 25 May 2009 at 7:41am | IP Logged | ||
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*giggles*
for the same reason it's "I do not hate you" and not "I do no hate you" It's a completely different word in a completely different grammatical role in the sentence. It's just a fluke that we use 'no' for that in English. Don't think of German words as English words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Weizenkeim Diglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5944 days ago 70 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 7 25 May 2009 at 9:42am | IP Logged | ||
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My suggestion would be:
Er mag keine Hausaufgaben, aber er ist froh, denn morgen ist keine Schule. Mögen sounds a little better for my ears here (mag,magst,mag,mögen,mögt,mögen = to like) also glücklich is a tiny bit more emotional than froh. kein(e) is negation of indefinte article ein(e).this is no good example though. (because there will be still a school tomorrow, just he won't have to go there) better like this: da ist ein Haus, there is a house da ist kein Haus, there is no (is not a) house you could also say: da ist nicht ein haus. but it would mean: There is not a single house. (stress bold) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6112 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 7 of 7 25 May 2009 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Es gibt is a very good construction to learn for this kind of situation.
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