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"Mein Lieblingsgetränk ist Tomatensaft!"
Translation:My favorite drink is tomato juice!
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Do favourite things always have Lieblings as part of a compound word? Could i say "Lieblingsfarbe" for my favourite colour?
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Yes. Everything can be combined with "Lieblings-" to express favourite something.
- Lieblingsschuhe (favourite shoes)
- Lieblingshund (favourite dog)
- Lieblingsjahreszeit (favourite season)
- Lieblings(blei)stift (favourite pencil)
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Lieblingswagen is favorite automobile Lieblingsfahrzeug is favorite vehicle
Fun words: Lieblingserdöltankschiff = favorite crude oil tanker ship Lieblingsdüsenkampfflugzeug = favorite jet fighter aircraft
The entry in Leo for "favourite" is "Lieblings.......", from which it would seem that that assertion is correct. Can any natives confirm that?
No, 12sea21, "Lieblingsfahrzeug" is "favourite vehicle" ..........not necessarily an "automobile"
I'm told it's quite nice with a bit of tabasco, Worcestershire sauce, celery and vodka.
Or "Wir können Freunde nicht sein" ? Depending if you want to negate the verb or the noun
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No, unfortunately the sentence you suggest is not possible.
In einer neutralen Aussage ist die Verneinung "nicht" hier nicht möglich oder nicht üblich. Sie wird dann verwendet, wenn die Verneinung kontrastierend ist.
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Well, one day you may read "Wir können nicht Freunde sein." IF a contrasting part follows or is strongly implied, like "Wir können nicht Freunde sein, aber Eltern." for example.
I'll give you a list of correct examples to point out the differences in grammar caused by indefinite articles, singular/plural ect.
- "Er hat keinen Freund." (negation of "Er hat einen Freund."; indefinite, singular)
- "Er hat keine Freunde." (negation of "Er hat Freunde."; indefinite, plural)
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- Note that there is no indefinite article in the plural sentence unless it is negated!
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"Er hat nicht einen Freund." (It's emphasized here that he really doesn't have one friend.)
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"Er hat keinen Freund, aber/sondern einen Feind."
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- ("He doesn't have a friend but an enemy.")
- "Er hat keinen Freund, aber/sondern Feinde."
- "Er hat keine Freunde, aber/sondern einen Feind."
- "Er hat keine Freunde, aber/sondern Feinde."
- "Er hat nicht Freunde, sondern Feinde."
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- The only occassion I heard sentences like this is if someone explains a word to a child. The focus is on the word itself (e.g.: it's correct pronounciation) and not the meaning.
- "Er hat nicht Freund, sondern Feind." as well as "Er hat nicht Freund, nicht Feind." are expressions you can find in really old texts and are definitely not used anymore.
I know that the contrast of "ein/kein", "mit/ohne", "für/gegen" ect. are very difficult - and I really mean it - so please don't get discouraged. German children often struggle with some of the 'rules' (and/or their exceptions), too. My little sister always used to say "mit ohne" instead of "ohne". E.g.: "Wir gehen mit ohne Mama." which is correctly "Wir gehen ohne Mama.". (After learning "without" in English class, I understood the logic my sister instinctively followed back then.)
"Beloved" is an old fashioned term applied, normally to people, implying a long standing deep relationship. You wouldn't use it for the trivia of your favourite drink.
Probably because "My favoured drink" sounds strange in English. Someone would always say "My favorite drink".
But to mean roughly the same thing, your have to say "My most favoured drink". But still, it wouldn't sound very English.
I feel like that's something that my great-grandparents would have said.
