Topic: German

"Please do not drink any beer."

Translation:Bitte trink kein Bier.

March 13, 2013

17 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/jajajaja1234

    Is "Bitte trinken Kein Bier" not an answer?

    March 13, 2013
    https://www.duolingo.com/Lenkvist

      I think that "Bitte trinken Sie kein Bier" would be better.

      March 13, 2013
      https://www.duolingo.com/christian
      Mod

        Yep, it's wrong without "Sie".

        March 13, 2013
        https://www.duolingo.com/pvolpert22

          Is "Trink bitte kein Bier" grammatically incorrect?

          June 9, 2014
          https://www.duolingo.com/bduderstadt

            "Bitte trink kein Bier", "Trink bitte kein Bier" and "Trink kein Bier, bitte" are all correct and mean the same. However, only the first one retains the word order of the English sentence.

            June 10, 2014
            https://www.duolingo.com/V2Blast
            • 18

            All are acceptable translations, though.

            August 9, 2014
            https://www.duolingo.com/Kwetla
            • 105

            Why can't you have 'trinkst du' rather than 'trinken Sie'?

            March 22, 2013
            https://www.duolingo.com/Dror.Schafer

              trink du

              April 9, 2013
              https://www.duolingo.com/christian
              Mod

                Bitte trink kein Bier.

                April 9, 2013
                https://www.duolingo.com/adeleeno

                  How do you know to start the sentence with "trinke" and not "trinken"? What rule does this come under when there is no adjoining gender word to let you know which verb ending to use?

                  April 24, 2013
                  https://www.duolingo.com/bduderstadt

                    You can tell it is imperative, so you need to use Imperativ in German. Trink! Trinken Sie!

                    May 21, 2014
                    https://www.duolingo.com/Pifta

                      I wrote trink kein Bier, which is good, but not accepted here :(

                      March 24, 2013
                      https://www.duolingo.com/Lenkvist

                        Did you translate "Please"?

                        March 24, 2013
                        https://www.duolingo.com/COTAP

                          Likewise, I wrote "Bitte trink kein Bier" and it corrected it to "Bitte trinkt kein Bier".

                          April 24, 2013
                          https://www.duolingo.com/ct456568

                            Me too. Isn't the extra "t" used when giving imperatives directed at multiple people?

                            May 12, 2013
                            https://www.duolingo.com/V2Blast
                            • 18

                            Yes - but this sentence does not specify only the singular, so both should be accepted.

                            August 9, 2014
                            https://www.duolingo.com/V2Blast
                            • 18

                            Should be accepted - it's probably just a matter of there being a lot of ways to translate the same thing. Report it.

                            August 9, 2014
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