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Sentence

die Negation (nicht / kein)

In English: negation

German has two main words for „not“. Kein negates a noun that has ein or no article, and takes the same endings as ein. Nicht negates everything else: it goes to the end of the clause to negate the whole sentence, or right before the element it negates.

Example: Ich habe keinen Hunger. Ich komme heute nicht.

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das Mittelfeld die Ja/Nein-Frage

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