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I also answered with 'Alex is a woman, not man.' and it was incorrect. Is it assumed because we said 'A woman' that we should also say 'a man' or is there a grammatical indication within the sentance I missed?
Yes, that’s right. Singular count nouns must have an article or a determiner of some kind.
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I said that "Alex is a woman, not man' and it counted it wrong and said it should be 'Alex is a woman no man' how does that make any sense.....
"Alex is a woman not a man" is the correct translation. "Alex" is short for either Alexander or Alexandra.
Wrote aleks and got it wrong. I understand that it is wrong but im a non english speaker and rely a lot on phonetics, so stuff like this is just a little annoying.
Yes. Note that it's spelled Alex in German as well, not just in English... Next time that sentence pops up, now you know.
Because we only use keinen if a masculine noun is the direct object of a verb--that is, if some action is done to it. There is no action in this sentence, and so no object of that action. No one is doing anything to the man, only stating that Alex isn't one.
Because the verb sein (to be) doesn’t take a direct object— there’s no action taking place. The sentence is saying that a certain person is one thing and not another, so there’s no reason to use accusative case.
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