"Die Jacken sind nicht gelb."
Translation:The jackets are not yellow.
January 23, 2013
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See here: http://german.about.com/od/grammar/a/German-Negation.htm
In our case it's 'nicht' because of the predicative use of 'gelb'. (Last rule in the nicht section on the page I linked to). A sentence with 'kein' would be: "Das sind keine gelben Jacken". (Note that in this case 'gelb' is used attributively)