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and welcome to Coffee Break German. Welcome

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back once again to the Coffee Break

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German show. Ich bin Marc. Ich

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bin Thomas. Wie geht's dir? Sehr gut,

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sehr gut eigentlich. Danke. Dir? Ja gut,

1:58

danke. Freut mich. In these

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Thomas, what's your favorite part of the

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channel? It's

2:22

a nice and kind

2:24

thing. Negation. Yes.

2:27

I love it. I love to eat lots of games. So

2:40

Thomas, negation works a little differently in

2:42

German from the way in which it

2:44

works in English. Yes, it's

2:46

more complicated than I think unnecessarily complicated.

2:48

That's why I don't really like it.

2:52

So there are three ways that we're going to

2:54

look at to negate things. First of all.

2:57

So which is just a straight answer to a question

3:00

if you say no in English. So

3:04

for example, if I asked you, do you like

3:06

German negation? No, definitely

3:08

not. Which

3:10

brings us to the second

3:12

negation, which is nicht. Yeah.

3:15

So nicht is in a sense the equivalent

3:17

of not. Okay, now, but

3:19

not in every circumstance. No. And

3:22

we look at it a little bit closer after we've

3:24

just kind of tipped on the last one and that

3:26

is kind. Yeah. And it's really

3:28

hard, I think, sometimes to translate in English. And we

3:30

will see in the examples that it's a

3:33

bit awkward to translate literally. Yeah. But

3:35

we'll come to that. Let's look first of all

3:37

at nicht and see the ways in which that

3:39

can be used to negate different things. Yes. And

3:42

I think I'll just tell you a couple of example sentences

3:44

and then we talk about what is actually negating

3:46

in that sentence. Okay. So

3:49

dieser salad is nicht frisch.

3:52

Diezer salad ist nicht

3:54

frisch. Exactly. And

3:56

we're seeing something with negating

3:58

in. adjective. So we are

4:00

putting it in front of

4:03

the adjective, so something is

4:05

not and then whatever

4:07

adjective follows. So it's used for negating

4:09

adjectives. It's also used

4:11

with prepositions, for example, we

4:13

are going to Berlin. Right,

4:17

so we are going today not

4:19

to Berlin. We're

4:24

not going to Berlin today. Exactly.

4:27

And it's I think a little

4:29

bit or you can distinguish more

4:31

in German because depending where you place the

4:33

nicht is what you negate or what you

4:35

want to focus on negating. Okay. So

4:38

this time we have it in nicht nach Berlin. So I

4:40

might actually be going somewhere else but we are not going

4:42

to Berlin. However, I can also

4:44

rephrase the sentence and can say, wir

4:47

fahren nicht heute nach Berlin.

4:49

So in that situation we're seeing wir

4:51

fahren nicht heute nach Berlin, wir

4:54

fahren wagen nach Berlin. So the

4:56

focus on it, it's not happening today, might

4:58

happen a different day. Okay, good. So we've

5:00

seen it here in front of an adverb

5:02

like heute or in front of a preposition

5:04

nach. Yeah, okay. Das

5:07

weis ich nicht would be another

5:09

example when you use nicht. Das

5:11

weis ich nicht. So there we're

5:13

negating the verb weis. Yes,

5:15

that's weis ich nicht, I don't know. And

5:17

we're kind of negating the whole sentence and that's

5:20

also the rule if you make a whole sentence

5:23

negative then the nicht goes at the very

5:25

end. That's good to know. Ich pan zi

5:27

nicht. I am not dancing. I know.

5:30

I know it for home. I see nicht

5:32

eit katte ein schon. I

5:34

actually do like this. It's a whole

5:36

different video. Okay, what else?

5:40

Maudelwurps. Hahn nicht

5:42

schwimmen. So again we're using in the context

5:44

of verbs here. Just wanted to

5:46

point out where we place it. So

5:48

ich kahn nicht schwimmen. I

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can not swim. Okay,

5:53

that's the same as the one

5:55

more example. Ich mechte die

5:58

sehose nicht anzien. So

6:00

far sentence is a bit longer but we still have

6:02

this modal verb michte. Yeah. Ich

6:04

michte die seh hos in nicht anzeen. So

6:07

I would not like to put on these trousers.

6:09

Yes, and I just wanted to kind of emphasize

6:11

that in English you would have to not very

6:13

early. Yeah. I

6:15

would not like to. However in German you say like I would

6:18

like these trousers not to put on. Yeah,

6:20

okay. So that's nicht. We

6:22

can use nicht then to negate adverbs,

6:25

adjectives, we can use it in front

6:27

of prepositions or verbs. But

6:29

there's another thing that we need to

6:31

negate. That kain, yes. And

6:33

I often see this the opposite of ein,

6:36

you know like ein ist the indefinite article.

6:38

Ich habe einen hund. I have a dog.

6:40

If you want to make that sentence negative,

6:43

you would say, Ich habe einen

6:45

hund. Yeah, so you can't say,

6:47

Ich habe nicht einen

6:49

hund. No, that sounds strange.

6:52

But you could say, Ich habe nicht einen hund.

6:55

So that's fine. Okay, now because then you

6:57

want to focus on the number one einen

6:59

hund but two. So you're making

7:01

the like einen negative. But

7:04

normally if you just say adok, you would

7:06

say kainen hund. I don't have any dog. Yeah,

7:10

it's like not any or not one, not

7:13

a, not a single sometimes as well, that

7:15

kind of idea. Kind of a

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no, not a single idea, not a clue. And

7:21

then actually if you see that my

7:23

second example is about exactly something like

7:25

that. For example, Ich habe heute lust

7:27

in sckinot zugien. If you make

7:30

that negative, even so we don't have the

7:32

einen or the einen, the indefinite article, we

7:34

just add the kainen. So Ich habe heute

7:36

kainen lust in sckinot zugien.

7:38

Ich habe heute kainen lust

7:41

in sckinot zugien. Good. So

7:43

it's the thing that also you need to

7:45

remember, which is a little bit more complicated

7:47

than with nicht is that

7:49

the kain needs to adjust to the gender and

7:52

the case. And it works like ein as well,

7:54

doesn't it, like the indefinite articles. Same

7:56

ending, so if we focus on einenhund,

7:59

it would become. Kein and Hund with

8:01

a jen. Okay. And

8:03

keine Lust, you said, because die

8:05

Lust. You know. Okay, good.

8:08

And so if you remember that kein is always

8:10

used in front of a noun, I think that's

8:13

like the main thing to take away. Kind of

8:15

the opposite of ein, even if there's

8:17

no ein there, and it's always placed in front of

8:19

a noun. Right, great. So

8:21

today we have looked at using

8:24

nein, meaning no, very simple one,

8:26

using nicht, meaning not, and

8:29

that has been used for adjectives, adverbs

8:31

in front of prepositions and verbs. And

8:34

then when it came to nouns, we were

8:36

looking at kein and how kein changes depending

8:38

on which case and gender and so on.

8:41

And kein is being used as

8:43

the opposite of ein. It's kind of

8:46

like not any, not a single,

8:48

or go, in

8:50

a sense. I always find

8:52

it hard to translate, I guess, the precise

8:54

English translation for it, but yeah, that's totally

8:56

ideal. And there are some other

8:59

negative words in German. Genau,

9:01

genau wie in English. So exactly like

9:03

in English, you can have nichts, nothing,

9:05

niemand, nobody, and so on. Yeah,

9:08

but I think that will be for another lesson. Good idea.

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We hope that you've enjoyed this lesson. There are,

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of course, all of the examples that we've covered

9:21

in the lesson written down in the blog article.

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So you can find that by going to the

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link in the description for this episode. And

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9:39

vielen Dank, Thomas. Kein Problem,

9:41

Marc. I like it. Ich

9:44

kann die nächste Folge nicht

9:46

erwarten. Awesome placement of nicht.

9:48

Sehr gut. We'll leave it

9:50

there. Vielen Dank und tschüss. Tschüss and

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