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- Check "nicht" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "nicht" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
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I wanted to ask about “nicht” in relation to adjektives as i didn’t notice that in the articles (could have missed that)
“Ich spreche nicht perfektes Deutsch”
I speak imperfect german.
There is no need for a hyphen here between nicht and perfektes?
And can that work with “perfekt” as an adverb ??
Ich spreche Deutsch nicht perfekt
Also spotted you could potentially add part 2 and the quiz to this page.
This is a really tricky way to use “nicht”.
In your example for instance, if you have an accent, people would hear it as a learner using the wrong negation and possibly correct you to
– Ich spreche kein perfektes Deutsch.
I was also tempted to say “yeah, needs hyphen”, but factually it doesn’t. A common example would be something like this:
– Ballaststoffe sind nicht verwertbare Anteile der Nahrung, die trotzdem eine große Rolle für eine gesunde Ernährung spielen.”
ah yeah, the ole nicht / kein distinction. And yeah, i definitely have an accent so… I guess maybe i’d tend towards using kein in spoken, unless its kinda common to use something into combo with nicht…