"Nobody works here."

Translation: Nikt tu nie pracuje.

[Olly_1052]

Why isn't correct "Tu nikt nie pracuje."?

[Jellei]

Correct, added now.

[Olly_1052]

Thank you

[Gaiajack]

But it can't be "Nikt nie tu pracuje"? Does the "nie" always have to be next to the verb?

[Jellei]

It should be next to what it negates, so you actually wrote "No one not here works", which does not make a lot of sense. But "On nie tu pracuje" would be acceptable (He works not here - but somewhere else).

[Pemich87]

The answer provided by duolingo is a double negative.

[tadjanow]

Double negatives work differently in Polish than in English.
The translation is correct - 'nikt' requires to negate the verb.

[br0d4]

In Polish grammar you can have double, triple, quadruple or even quintuple negation and still it means just negation.

EDIT sorry, this should have been under the PeterChusz's note.

[bilberry99]

Clear, thank you. I would love to see an example of quintuple negation!

[br0d4]

"Nikt nigdzie i nigdy nic nie zrobił w tej sprawie." - Nobody ever and in any place did anything in that matter (Nobody never and nowhere didn't do nothing in that matter)

[bilberry99]

Thank you! Worth a Lingot (...the best Lingot I ever spent).

[Rimdus]

Wow. Great example.

[ReichertRomano]

Why not Nikt nie tu pracuje?

[br0d4]

Because when you negate a verb, you have to put the negation right before the verb: "Nikt tu nie pracuje?"

[Pete_Sr]

Why is the verb "works - pracuj" in third person singular? I expected third person plural since it is nobody.

[Jellei]

But English also uses 3rd person singular - that's the only grammatical person for which the right form of the verb is "works". I guess it's like "not even one person".