"Er hat noch nie Käse gegessen!"
Translation:He has never eaten cheese!
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noch nicht = "up until now" (which is expressed in the use of the present perfect in English but necessarily in German)
Because it's the wrong tense -- it has to be "He has never eaten cheese" (up till now), because of the "noch nie" (never up till now).
I don't agree with your translation : you skipped " noch" and translated " er hat nie Käse gegessen"
noch nie means something very similar to just nie.
How would you make the distinction?
I wondered something similar. I wrote, "He has still never eaten cheese." and it was not accepted, I assume because Duo considers the "still" either redundant or superfluous here.
I wrote, "He has still never eaten cheese." and it was not accepted, I assume because Duo considers the "still" either redundant or superfluous here.
No, it considers it wrong.
noch nie means "never".
Not "still never".
Similarly, noch nicht means "not yet". It does not mean "still not" (= immer noch nicht).
How would you convey "still never" and "still not" in German then?
"still not" is immer noch nicht, as I wrote above.
"still never" doesn't make sense to me. Can you give me a couple of sentences where that expression would sound natural to you? Especially ones where you couldn't replace it with "still not"?
While I wouldn't say that is a nicely flowing answer, I believe it does get the same message across. I think "He hasn't ever eaten cheese" would be a better construction. I would report it and see if it gets accepted.
"he has never eaten cheese before" where is the mistake?? Considering that duo suggests never before as translation for noch nie??
"he has never eaten cheese before" is one of the accepted translations. Did you have a listening exercise, perhaps, rather than a translating exercise?
He never has eaten cheese wasn't accepted, is there a difference I'm missing?
The word order feels a little strange for my personal dialect of English, but I think the meaning would be the same. Did you report it?