"Jag tycker inte alls om hennes nya man."

Translation: I do not like her new husband at all.

[eekboom]

Is "alls" always used with negation ("inte alls")?

("I like her at all" does not make much sense either, right?)

[Arnauti]

Yes, it's always used with a negation. Or sometimes in questions, like, har du några X alls 'do you have any X at all' – so it's a lot like in English.

[Arx]

thank you very much :)

[Sjodni]

Isn't: "Jag tycker inte om hennes ny man alls?" also correct?

[nordist]

You should have nya, not ny. After a possessive form the adjective ends with an a.

[Zmrzlina]

It'd be acceptable but less common.

[sustained]

How is it acceptable? It's entirely incorrect, no?

Just as incorrect as "huset är gul" or "hunden är rött"?

[Zmrzlina]

I was referring to the word order and supposed the adjective was a typo or just an oversight.

[sustained]

Oh, right, sorry! I didn't even notice the word order changed!

My eyes just jumped straight to the adjective.

[Zmrzlina]

No worries. It was a legit question. :)

[havjermunaas]

I don't like at all her new husband. Is my English so bad?

[NathanHill16]

It's one of those "Makes sense, but sounds wrong" things. I can't explain why, but as a native speaker I would (almost) always put the "at all" after the object.

[sustained]

Worth mentioning for future comment-readers that--to my British-English eyes, at least--the following order seems fine (albeit a little old-fashioned, perhaps?):

"I do not at all like her new husband".

But I agree that it mostly goes on the end.

[satwita]

I'm American, and it works for me too, although I prefer it at the end.

[Sandi_e]

I too (I speak English English) could see myself using "I do not at all like her new husband " if I was emphatically saying that I really really did not like her husband and I would emphasise the 'not at all'.

[Jazgrza]

Well, we are here for Swedish. If it makes sense it should be accepted, because Duo will make us repeat this sentence for nothing.

[Tanfur]

Also a native speaker of English, and either sounds correct. The earlier placement of "at all" sounds just a little bit more emphatic is all.

[Jean564934]

'Don't' was marked wrong in an otherwise identical sentence...

[devalanteriel]

We don't actually control the "don't/do not" functionality - if we enter "do not", the system is supposed to accept "don't" as well. Obviously, if that's what you put and everything else was identical, it really should have been accepted.

[kazzapurple]

'man' was not accepted instead of 'husband'

[devalanteriel]

While the Swedish man does mean both, it could never be understood in Swedish to mean anything but "husband" here.

[Tanfur]

How then would you say it when you didn't mean "husband"?

[ConorMcFar]

How many words can one have between separable verbs? Can you actually have several within a reasonable context?

[devalanteriel]

Oh yes, absolutely. You could theoretically fit in an infinite numer of applicable words. In practice, perhaps not so many. :)

[HerMyKneeGinger]

From what I understand "inte alls" is used to express "completely/entirely not". How does one say "not entirely/compeletely"? It's "inte helt" according to Google translate, but I would like to make sure.

[devalanteriel]

inte helt would work perfectly here. :)

[Tanfur]

I moved the "at all" in my translation. To after like, which sounds ok to me as a native English speaker, but thr app marked it as wrong. So my steak was broken.

[Tanfur]

I had "I do not at all like her new husband" but it was marked as wrong, yet it sounds fine to me, and the same as the guven answer.