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"My name is not Hans, but Karl!"
Translation:Ich heiße nicht Hans, sondern Karl!
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Good question! "Heißen" is tricky to negate here. In this case, "heißen" is acting closer to verbs like "sein", where both the subject is the object, instead of doing something to the object, so the object keeps the nominative case. These verbs are called copula verbs.
The way I imagine it is that when you negate copula verbs like "sein" and this use of "heißen", you can't negate the action of "being", so you have to negate the object instead.
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Das ist echt komisch! Das habe ich noch nie bemerkt und ich studiere seit mehr als fuenf oder sechs Jahren Deutsch! Vielen Dank.
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I think because your sentence would have to be: Ich heiße nicht Hans instead of Hans nicht
From my understanding "sondern" is used in the context of:
"Not this but rather that" or "Not red but rather blue"
And "aber" is used when you are expanding on the sentence rather than giving an alternative:
"Not red but it's a pretty color"
That's what I wrote and it was marked wrong. Can anyone tell me why please?
i'd like to know too, it doesn't accept "mein name" but it wants "ich heisse"... weird
"Mein Name ist nicht Hans, aber Karl" sounds like you're about to expound on the sentence by adding a new clause with Karl as the subject. E.g. "My name is not Hans, but Karl... keeps calling me by that name." On the other hand, "sondern" signifies that you are replacing one thing with another. "My name is not Hans, BUT RATHER Karl."
Don't use aber to contrast but sondern
Mein Name ist nicht Hans SONDERN Karl
Is correct and accepted by duo
"Meine name ist nicht Hans, sondern Karl" Can someone explain me why this is wrong?
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So far for me, if you can use "but rather," just plug in sondern. Otherwise, use aber.
If you translated 'Ich heiße kein karl' its meaning 'My name is not a karl', since kein meaning 'not a'. So we should use nicht instead kein.
Why couldn't we use Meine name ist nicht... for the "my name is not.." portion?
Why is "Mein Name keinen Hans sondern Karl" wrong? Should we not use Kein for Noun and Nicht for verbs ? and since Hans is masculine, keinen should be used right?
I think because kein in it's many forms means "not a" so you are saying "my name is not a Hans" instead of "my name is not Hans"
Can someone help understand what is the rule with respect to placement of Nicht. Another comments thread mentioned the 'nicht' comes right after ist, or bist or sind if they are part of the sentence but other places, it is recommended to have the nicht at the end. It had worked fir me until now. I assume my understanding was not right.
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For my mind, because a name in its meaning isn't a noun (although we name it "noun"), but rather adjective or pronoun. So kein doesn't use with names, but nicht (as with adjective).
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The hint says ' my name' could also be 'mein Name ist'. The is useless if it is wrong.
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I think it's because there's a negation in the first clause. Unless I'm recalling it wrong
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Mein Name ist nicht Hans sondern Karl. Währe für mich die richtige Antwort. Ich heiße nicht Hans, sondern Karl. Würde ich mit, my name is not Hans, but Karl.
