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- "Nein, mir ist nicht danach."
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Short answer: No difference.
Long answer: My German friend told me that Ich habe keine lust means I don't feel like it. Fast forward a few weeks, and I got this sentence. So it's safe to assume both are the same.
I think it's like saying "I don't feel like it" vs "I'm not in the mood for it"
There's no significant difference behind the meaning of these 2 sentences.
I'm thinking... No, I am not (whatever's next). Or an idiom in English... (No, count me out. or No, it's not for me.)
Can anyone explain the meaning of this to me? I always think of it as 'I am not after'.... is it slang or something like I'm not into it?
It is a fixed expression meaning "(not) to feel like it" or "(not) to be in the mood".
If I had to hazard a guess, I would say it translates most literally to "It is not happening after this, for me."
If I had to hazard a guess, since it effectively means "I am not after that" I would surmise it's a cousin of the English expression "I'm not into that" which has a similar if different context of not being interested.
As I am about to reach level 11 now, I feel like doing the exercise of trying to explain the meaning of the sentence (even though I am sure that by now you could explain it to me much better).
Take the German sentence: Nein, mir (es) ist nicht danach (with an elliptical subject, of course), reorder it and consider that danach means “in connection with”, “accordingly”, or “related to”. It gives “No, it is not related to me” or “No, it does not connect with me”, which is more or less the sense of not feeling like something.
I hope I am not terribly wrong and this can help future learners.
Yes... I was thinking along the lines of "Count me out." to use an English idiom, or No, not for me afterwards.
you can take it for granted that es is the subject. So the full sentence is es ist nicht danach mir
Is this a common colloquial saying in German? Would someone use this structure to describe how they feel? Like, "Mir ist Scheiße danach" if they were hungover? Danke
It's rather like "I'm not in the mood for that." (for that = danach). Analogously "Mir ist nach lesen." - "I'm in the mood for reading." But it's already a little old-fashioned.
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replying to kyky, actually danach does not mean for that. Danach means after that. Es ist mir nicht danach (or mir ist nicht danach) literally means it is not after me or to me it is not afterwards. Someone above had it right, it's like English's I'm not into that, though in German the cases are different
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Then why does Duo not write it this way? This confuses those of us who are trying to learn the basics here, only to have Duo throw in expressions that do nothing to teach us anything but confusion.
"ist" actualy does not refer to "mir" but to "es", a word that has been left out. In german these words are just sometime left out like in":
Mir ist (es) kalt
In the sentence above it is a little bit more difficult beacuse it is a fixed expression.
So in that sense it is like other languages that omit the pronoun when the conjugated verb gives the subject or context?
German isn't a pro-drop language. These are special constructions. In normal sentences you need the pronouns. Colloquially you may drop one now and then.
You come across these constructions sometimes. Consider "Mir ist kalt." (= "I am/feel cold.")
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I think of it more like, "It is cold to me," or "For me it is cold."
(Und auch, in Till's voice: "...So kalt!")
It's just like in some British slangs. For example, "me is not feeling it".
As it is a fixed expression, I would suggest adding context elaboration to Duo . Let's make him swim a little bit in his words instead of his Gold.
The verb "to feel" is sich fühlen. Z.B. (zum Beispiel, for example) Ich fühle mich jetzt besser= I'm feeling better now. It's not used in this sentence though, because German doesn't use it in this fixed expression :)
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And why not, "No, I am not in the mood for that"? And I wish someone from Duolingo would explain what they mean by the "Stop the clutter!" message. How would one report "mistakes" in a way that the Stop-the-clutter scolder would prefer?
just do not use the discussion about percieved mistakes use the report button and let duolingo people aware of your issues rather than cluttering the discussion board that is about other issues
It does not. The "nein" at the beginning is an interjection. For all intents and purposes, it is irrelevant to the rest of the sentence.
I was trying to put it in terms of the original sentence.
I don't think it's really possible though, so I don't know what I was doing there.
right it is not correct in German. Therefore I gave you a good version to say 'I don't like/ I don't feel well with this sentence.
The phrase doesn't translate literally.
Word for word to get a feel of the grammar, the sentence would probably be something like "No, to me it is not thereafter" where the "it" is implied.
But this would be one of those cases where there's no value in translating it word for word like that, so you'd be better off just learning the meaning of the phrase altogether.
I'm confused about the use of "danach" in this sentence. In other sentences in this unit, it means "then", as in "then it is simple". Here it means "in connection with", or some such.
Can somebody explain what's going on? Are these really two (possibly related) usages or the same word, or two completely different words that happen to be spelled the same?
Reverso gives one translation of danach as "in accordance with it" (= im Einklang damit). So a very literal translation of the German sentence might be, "It is not to me in accordance with it," which is not far from, "I do not feel like it."
Can anybody explain how this question is related to "Dates"? Too many irrelevant questions in this section...
Looking at definitions I can't find any reference to "danach" that describes to feel like it. Just towards, beyond, afterwards etc.
I thought "danach" was after that or some such thing....God help me with German!
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What the hell does "danach" translate to in this sentence? I'm getting really frustrated at all of these unexplained translations by Duolingo. NONE of them make sense at all! Bitte hilf mir
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Does "I am not into that" make sense, literally?
Any way... If you go to the top of this "page" and start reading from there you will find very interesting remarks about the sentence "mir ist [es] nicht danach".
It is worth a look.
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How does this literally translate? It seems like something like 'No, it is not me then.' Does this make sense to Germans?
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I wrote "Nein, mir isst nicht danach." because I couldn't catch it from the normal speed correctly and the slowed down sounded like "isst", however, Duolingo did not correct me at all and it did not even mark it as a typo. I didn't report because I continued before reading this thread as I wasn't sure if it was a hearing typo or again some weird idiom DL likes to throw around, and now it's too late as I already finished with that skill.
Ah yes, the "no, me is not afterwards" meaning "I don't feel like it" idiom, my favorite logic based idiom. It sounds great and I like this particular one, but I can't say it makes any sense literally.
I made the same mistake, but Duolingo doesn't show any typo (it would show if it had recognized one). Could this have another meaning (like "no, I will not eat afterwards". I guess we would rather say "Nein, danach wird ich nicht essen".
That would use some sort of "Ich bin nicht" rather than "Mir ist nicht" structure.
When you see "Mir ist nicht" the literal translation is more like "It is not [something] to me"
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I have no freaking clue how this german sentence means what it is translated to! danach - how does that fit in at all?
me is not afterwards! somehow = I do not feel like it! Totally confused!
Imagine saying "Ich fühle nicht wie es" (Literally "I don't feel like it") to a German. They would ask how it's possible to compare your sense of touch to some other object's sense of touch. "I don't feel like it" is an idiom that makes sense to us, but the words are nonsense to other languages.
That's all "mir ist nicht danach" is. It's an idiom which we don't share with German. It conveys the same idea, but the words make no sense to us.
I thought that was what 'Ich fühle mich' was for? Though I wonder why this isn't in the idioms lesson.
Not too sure how long ago you've written this... but danach can be translated into 'in accordance'. So anyone reading this today (2020) you should dictionary words to see their alternate uses. This is likely not an idiom as many have suggested... it simply can be used to explain someone(thing)'s accordance.
"No, (it) is to me not in accordance"... where the es is implied seems ok.
