"Der Besucher mag mich nicht."
Translation:The visitor does not like me.
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Besucher can be anybody visiting. Gast is more of an invited guest, say at a party or wedding.
is 'likes me not' correct in english? i believe i've seen such usage, but Duo does not accept it anywhere...
It is acceptable but it's old fashioned and not in common use any more. For example words like doth and twas are probably not accepted but are grammatically allowed in the English language
The only time I've seen that is in the (very old) custom of tearing off petals of a flower and alternating between "s/he likes me" "s/he likes me not".
You might have heard "loves me, loves me not, loves me..." said whilst plucking daisy petals - perhaps it has Germanic origins... (sorry mmacinne for slight crossover)
Otherwise, you might have heard something along the lines of, "This is correct, is it not?" which is perfectly fine
Besucher for an all-male or mixed group of visitors, Besucherinnen for an all-female group.
If this sentence were "The visitors do not like me" then the verb would also conjugate differently, as it does in English: Die Besucher mögen mich nicht.
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Google Translate and VidaLingua German English dictionary show "Besuchern" as plural form for "visitors". Is it correct or less common to use?
It appears that besucher is both singular and plural. Is Die used in the case of plural? As in "Die Besucher mögen mich nicht"?
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I wasn't given valid options when given this sentence :
Maybe I should have used "The visitor dislikes me"? If so. - the correction doesn't make any sense.
DL gives the correct solution closest to your answer not the one it intended. It is a common problem and I regularly deal with it. Hearts are given for this purpose probably. Good luck.
Mich is like the English "me", mir is more like "to me".
(Accusative) Ex. Do you see me? Siehst du mich?
(Dative) I am well. Mir geht es gut. (literally: To me goes it good.)
Is besucher the same for visitors. I put the plural and got it wrong. :(
Means the visitor is a ghost or supernatural being. It does appear to be a valid translation, though.
Technically nothing, but it is not a common word in regular conversation at all. I would say the general population wouldn't even know the meaning of it.
No. Only with nouns (not pronouns as is the case here). In this sentence we hence need nicht to negate the verb instead.
I typed "The visitor do not like me" and it was not accepted. Is there something wrong in my translation ?
