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"My wife does not talk with me."
Translation:Meine Frau spricht nicht mit mir.
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Its not wrong that way but sounds quite, well, unstructured. As a native speaker, I wouldn't say it this way.
No this is wrong. I am german and even if natives understand your meaning, it still sounds strange. So i recommend that you say "spricht nicht mit mir" rather than "spricht mit mir nicht" which literally would sound like "talks to me not" in english. That sound strange right?
Not that I know. I've been taking German for years and that's the word order I have always used. Sentence structure in German can be pretty flexible. I was taught to place the negative "nicht" at the end of the sentence (after the prepositional phrase).
I'm not sure why "Meine Frau spricht mit mir nicht" is incorrect. I've taken German for 8 years and lived in Germany and thats how I've always said it. Totally possible I've been wrong all that time...but I feel like someone would have corrected me by now
No this is wrong. I am german and even if natives understand your meaning, it still sounds strange. So i recommend that you say "spricht nicht mit mir" rather than "spricht mit mir nicht" which literally would sound like "talks to me not" in english. That sound strange right?
yes that is wrong. that would mean "talks me not" in english. the "mir" in this case, means "to me"
Das ist einfach falsch...im Deutschen ist der Satzbau anders. Was wolltest denn sagen?
I honeatly not sure it is wrong. The preposition "mit" is implied by the dative tense of "mir".
'Reden' means' to talk to someone about something' or 'to discourse with'. So here it would mean, "my wife doesnt discuss things with me" instead of "my wife doesn't speak with me [at all]." So you could use 'reden' but it would change the overall meaning of the sentence.
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No, you can say "Meine Frau redet nicht mit mir" (please note the placement of "nicht") and it means exactly the same, it just sounds a bit more colloquial.
What is the difference between "mit" and "von"? I heard "von" can also mean 'with' and I've heard it used here before.
"reden mit" is "to talk with/to". "reden von" is "to talk about". Don't try to translate prepositions 1:1, you'd better learn complete phrases, because German and English often use different prepositions.
Why is "Meine Frau spricht mit mir nicht" incorrect, yet something like "Er hilft mir nicht" is correct? In both cases, "nicht" comes at the end and follows "mit"... Is there a rule or something that I'm missing?
The "mir" in "Er hilft mir nicht" is a simple dative object, whereas ""mit mir" is an adverbial determination. The position of "nicht" is usually quite close to the end of the sentence. Oly some specific elements, among them adverbial determination, come after it.
