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- "Das Feuer ist nicht kalt."
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Poetry my friend...insensible poetry bringing down centuries of knowledge...yearning for madness....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ on general knowledge....
Just saying...the grammar is correct, though...
I actually saw a video not too long ago where some dude somehow made a fire that's room temp
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Captain Einsicht!!
https://www.southpark.de/clips/360430/captain-einsicht
I can't see it in my country... :(
why is it not "das feuer ist kalt nicht"? very confused on where in the sentence the negation goes as it always seems to change >_
Just a beginner myself but... I have read that the "nicht" follows the verb when it is a version or close relative of "sein", to be. Otherwise it follows the object.
Das Feuer ist nicht kalt = the fire is not cold, nicht being not. Das Feuer ist kein kalt = the fire is none/not any cold. Saying the fire isn't any cold sounds really funny in english and might even be wrong. The fire is NOT cold, so nicht for not.
I want to hug every Italian person who keeps making mistakes with kalt because it sounds like caldo in italian, meaning hot. You are not alone.
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English UK native speaker.... think the English would be 'The ashes are not cold' ..... so they haven't been gone long, so we might catch up with them..... or possibly 'the campfire is not cold' so the scouts have not been gone long...
