Ich trinke keinen Kaffee and Ich trinke nicht are both negative sentences, but German is doing two different things. Kein is usually connected to a noun, while nicht is used to negate a verb, adjective, adverb, or another part of…
Sometimes two little letters make all the difference. Ei usually sounds like the “eye” in “my,” while ie is usually a long “ee.” So mein is like “mine” and sie is like “zee.” But the sounds can seem backwards because,…
German word order gets easier when you stop translating English sentences and start paying attention to where the conjugated verb goes. Say a short sentence like Ich lerne heute Deutsch. The verb is in the second position. Now move heute…
It may seem straightforward when you first look at a list of German nouns: Tisch is table, Tür is door, and Buch is book. But what happens when you are trying to make a sentence and suddenly realize that you…