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Day 14: Kein vs nicht — the two German no's

Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2026 · 5 min

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Episode fourteen of Day One German, with Felix and Leonie. Bad news is news, and bad news is full of negatives. Today's quirk is genuinely useful grammar in disguise: German has two words for 'not', kein for things, nicht for everything else, and one simple rule of thumb to choose between them. Today's sentence: Im Norden gibt es keinen Strom, und die Schulen sind nicht geöffnet.

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