"Du magst diese Freunde nicht."

Translation: You do not like these friends.

[PaulNelson0]

how can they be friends if you do not like them

[zengator]

How can you like them if you do not know them?

In this era of Facebook™, the meaning of "friends" includes people about whom one may have no more than the barest awareness of their existence. I have no idea who about 180 of these people are:

There could be serial killers in the mix. I dunno, but die Eule categorizes them as my "friends" and I actually have no say in the matter.

It's an interesting world we live in.

[potato_nug]

I'm your frienf now

[prosto_max]

Are you a serial killer too? :-)

[Scarlet2906]

Hear,hear!!!!!

[tomat1989]

why is this not "diesen Freunden"?

[Cian_G]

It would only be "diesen Freunden" in the dative case and mögen is a verb that forces the accusative

[Markqz]

Could "nicht" go anywhere else in the sentence?

[zengator]

Nein.

[Markqz]

Why not after "magst" ?

[zengator]

For the same reason that "not" isn't at the end of the sentence in the English translation.

[Geoffrey878583]

That's not an explanation!

[Mo1399]

I think it is a good explanation. Cause there are some irregular instruction in every language grammar.

[NicMdE21]

DL akzeptiert auch die Übersetzung: "You dislike these friends." (2018-04-15)

[veridiandrade]

Yoda lives forever in Germany

[skrznsk]

I like how end of the sentence totally changes the meaning.

[Markqz]

English had a similar thing, and it still remains in short phrases and special usage:

"She loves me,
She loves me not."

There was a slight revival of the usage, maybe late 90s, where someone (usually a comedian) would append a "not" to the end of a sentence to change it's meaning abruptly:

"You are the most amazing person I've ever met -- not!"

[stjoan]

Y'all, it's "You don't like THESE friends," not "you don't like your friends," although that would not be unheard of either.

[WillSims2]

Can some please explain why it was 'diese Freunde' so why was it feminine

[andriiya]

Because it was plural. Plural has it's own set of rules that are separate from the M/F/N rules.

[bke.org]

Dann sind sie keine Fteunde