"Keiner spielt."
Translation:Nobody plays.
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I read (on a different question's thread) that "keiner" and "niemand" are interchangeable, like "no one" and "nobody" in English.
In Punjabi also " koini" and "koiwini" which means nodody or no one, are interchangeable.
So many downvotes for someone who's trying to share knowledge on a educational platform. I've seen everything now...
I do not understand in "Keiner spielt". I tried "Keine spielt" as a guess. I do not understand how to determine the gender of Kein/e/r based on the verb ending. I have read the links posts earlier as explanations but cannot find the logic of this answer. Thanks in advance to any help here.
I guess it's kind of like how "Jeder" means everyone, and how "jede/jedes" is incorrect..
And the same thing applies, where "Keiner" means nobody, it is not "keine/keines" probably for the same reason. Must be another German rule that we have to learn
Kein - 'not a/any' for Masculine/Neuter and Keine - 'not a/any' for Feminine/plural.
Keiner - no body. But I don't know exactly what is the difference between Keiner and Neimand.
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So kein/e/n are the different forms of the same word, meaning 'no' or 'not', but keiner means 'no one'. You can (in my experience so far) interchange the words 'keiner' and 'niemand' quite freely, if that helps
in this case "keiner" is a negative pronoun.
I hope these links can answers your questions:
"Keiner" would be Nominativ Maskulin. the suffix of 'der' is applied to kein, making it Keiner (nobody). similarly for Nominativ Neutrum, kein + das = Keines (nothing,none). http://www.canoo.net/services/Controller?input=kein
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I had the identical response. ( 'None plays' given as suggested answer) I really cannot believe it to be a useable translation. AND... There is no button to report an incorrect English translation!!
Because 'No one' or 'Nobody' is a singular indefinite pronoun.
Keiner means 'no one'
(einer means one, and K is the negative of einer, so it means 'No')
Why is it not "No playing?" Is it just because it can be confused with "Playing is not allowed?"
Because keiner means nobody. "Nobody plays" it isn't the correct translation for Playing not allowed.
so keiner is another word than kein or it just kein change according to what's after it?
What is the difference between "Niemand" and "Keiner"? As far as I know they mean the same.
Jemand= someone Niemand= no one Keiner= no body Jeder= some body/everybody Is that correct?
I guessed and typed in "No playing" It was wrong and the answer was "None playing"
This sentence doesn't make sense though?
In the notes for this lesson it gives the following examples:
niemand shläft = nobody sleeps
and
keiner shläft = none of them sleeps
I gave my answer to this question as "none of them plays" and - predictably - the software says this is incorrect. Would anyone mind explaining what's going on here? (I've seen some explanation of this here but I don't really understand)
Thanks so much, bye, Adam.
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I wrote "Noone plays," due to a missed space between "no" and "one". Duolingo said that I had a typo. That what I meant to write was "None plays." I thought Duo only took answers that are grammatically correct. Is this not the case?
Direction is "type what you hear". It says "keine spielt". I thpe that and it says it's wrong. It gives me the english answer.
Anyone can tell me why it always use spielt from? Not spielen, spiele or spielst.
I take it these words are masculine no particular language other than it just being the way the language developed.
So, just to make sure. If it was "kein/e spielt" it would mean "no playing." But keiner, making it an pronoun, means it now is "nobody"?
"No one plays" and "no one is playing" are both valid English phrases which are valid translations of this German phrase.
I used the hyphenated "no-one" which is rare in US english so it told me it was a typo for "None", which I would consider incorrect English.
I put "No playing" but was told "No one's playing", but I don't see the translation for "one's" so how did I know to put it?
It corrected me to "none play" from no play (as in no play for you.) My answer could be wrong but "none play is definitely wrong.
What is it is an all-female group? Keine for feminine?
What is it is a mixed group? Keine for plural?
I wrote "no-one", not "nobody" & was marked wrong. The two words are essentially synonymous so my answer should be accepted
I said "No-one plays", and it marked it right, but said I had a typo. I tried to report it, but the "my answer was right" option which appears on my phone wasn't there in the laptop version. That's odd, because usually the laptop version has way more options than the phone app.
The voice says, "keine spielt". Shouldn't SHE (the speaker) be wrong instead of me?
Just go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.babbel.mobile.android.en and learn more german
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My lesson was to write what you hear. Both slow and normal speed sounded like keine. There was not even a hint of an "r" at the end of that word. So, of course, I got it wrong. I did report it.
