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- "Nichts ist normal."
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I'm not 100% sure myself, but since no one else has replied in nearly a year I might as well share what I've gathered from the context: I believe nicht is meant to refer to singular or "definitive" things like "not", while nichts could be plural or even all things, like "nothing" in this case.
If that doesn't sound clear, I believe it's (essentially) like this:
nicht = not, nichts = nothing
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
I feel nichts used with you and nothing. While nicht meanno and nothing both. Nichte is niece. Nicht mehr is nothing more
Nichts - Nothing/Do Not and Nicht - Not. Lingots if i made you happy :P
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The difference in nicht and nichts is “Nicht“ means “No“ and “Nichts“ means “Nothing“.
First LGBT (ihr Frau), thwn nudes, now wisdom of ubnormality. Isn't it too far for Duo? ;)
Hovering over 'Nichts' and it translates as 'nothing' or 'anything' please can someone explain
For those who may still be confused, it's easiest to just think of Nicht as always being "not" and Nichts as always being "nothing" even though it's not always the case. In most grammatical cases it makes more sense to think of it that way
Duo read Sarte one time and now its having full on existential crises... Oh man
Not sure if this has been answered yet, but niemand= nobody while nichts= nothing. "Niemand ist normal" would be "nobody is normal" rather than using "nichts" which would be "nothing is normal"
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In Danish and Norwegian, yes; in Modern German it doesn't though, instead the cognate is Mann. The mand in niemand was not borrowed from a North Germanic language, but it used to be nieman in Middle High German, but over the last 500-700~ years a [t] sound was added, and written with a d.
In the translation it say nothing, it also says anything. I wrote anything and it was not accepted. Does anyone know why?
Nichts can mean 'nothing' or 'not anything'. It all depends on the context of its use
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Click on the exercise you want it for(although it isn't available for all skills) and a pop-up should appear. Then you press on the light bulb. You can tell if it isn't available if there isn't a light bulb.
That would mean "Nobody is normal" or perhaps "None of them is normal" when referring to a group of masculine objects.
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And why is "Keiner" wrong? "Keiner is normal" is the grammatically correct sentence, we don't know the required meaning before seeing the result, so "Keiner", i suppose, is the correct answer?
What is missing in Duolingo is the teaching of simple phrases like OH COME ON and every languages own WTF statements. Would be very useful. Phrases Duo, phrases...
What is the difference between kein and nicht? I don't understand how or when to use them. Danke
Why option "Nothing is ok" is not valid here? It looks to me that meaning is the same.
The difference is subtle in English, but it is there. If someone said, "Nothing is okay," I would then expect them to be able to give me a list of grievances or complaints about their life. "Nothing is normal" suggests things are not quite right, or they're a little strange, but it is not the same.
Also, generally I have not seen "normal" and "ok" used as synonyms in either language.
in this case we didn't used nicht because nicht means not and when we add s to the ending for eg.morgens meaning every morning rather than just morgen which means morning.thus here nichts means not even a thing.
Why is all this nihilism: no one is perfect, nothing is normal, it's unattractive learning a new language with this depressive talk
First LGBT (ihr Frau), then nudes, now wisdom of ubnormality ;) cool Duo
so, this person, "nichts" that you're talking about, is this person, as you said, normal? Intriguing.
Niemand would refer to a person, whereas nichts would refer to an object. Niemand = nobody, nichts = nothing. But, that was a funny statement (sorry to be a joke killington) I just wanted to make sure that you didn't get those two mixed up :)
