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| shadowzoid Groupie United States Joined 5523 days ago 76 posts - 85 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 5 31 May 2009 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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According to Michel Thomas, In order to say "It is not possible", why do you say "Es ist nicht möglich" instead of "Es it möglich nicht"?
If i wanted to say "I don't have it" i put nicht after habe. why is it different with möglich? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5851 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 5 31 May 2009 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
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Because "habe" is a verb and "möglich" isn't...?
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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5605 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 3 of 5 31 May 2009 at 1:18am | IP Logged |
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Cainntear is right. The 'nicht' comes after the verb, and the verb in that sentence is 'Sein'- so it is "Es ist nicht________" whatever.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6749 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 5 31 May 2009 at 2:06am | IP Logged |
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...plus the fact that "Ich habe es nicht" matches the Shakespearian sounding "I have it not" perfectly.
I'd be surprised if the Michel Thomas course doesn't cover this word order issue. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5763 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 5 of 5 31 May 2009 at 11:30pm | IP Logged |
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"Es ist nicht möglich" has the exact same word order as English so he doesn't go into it. He concentrates more on the "I have it not" and where to put pronouns.
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