"Never log out of Duolingo, friends!"
Translation:Ne vous déconnectez jamais de Duolingo, les amis !
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Is that why vous is ahead of the verb? Doesn't the pronoun typically come after the verb in imperative?
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Object pronouns stay before the verb when it is negated:
Déconnectez-vous > Ne vous déconnectez pas
Does anyone know why in this case it's 'de duolingo' and in others it is 'du duolingo'? Is it because in this case the negative form is being used leading to 'de' where as without the negative, it would be 'du'?
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Duolingo is a proper noun so it is not used with a definite article. I'm not sure where you saw "du Duolingo" (= de + "le Duolingo") but I don't think anyone would say that. And no, it has nothing to do with the negation in this case.
the bird is getting in our heads again Wait~ does that mean we're "bird brains?" ;-)
Curious - is "Jamais ne déconnectez-vous de Duolingo, les amis!" When I read the sentence, I was reminded of "Rien ne va marcher". Is the latter phrase idiosyncratic?
@Carole. I don't think it's idiosyncratic. "Nothing is going to work". 'Rien' is the subject followed by the verbs. 'pas' is not used because 'rien' is already a negative pronoun... or something like that :) Similar to "Personne ne va venir" = "Nobody is going to come"
if they're friends, shouldn't I use the tu form? I either don't know how to properly form this sentence, or Duo isn't accepting it.
Ne te deconnecte jamais de Duolingo, les amis! (yes? or what's wrong?)
Tu is the singular familiar 2nd person pronoun. The plural second person pronoun is vous. (It's also singular formal, but that isn't relevant here.)
oh my gosh. I'm finishing level five for everything - and I missed this simple thing. I'm just going to say I was really tired yesterday when I thought this and wrote this.