Timeline for When does “haben” push “nicht” to the end of the sentence?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:42 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 8, 2016 at 15:41 | comment | added | reinierpost | Isn't the unmarked word order Wir haben das Examen nicht am Freitag? Isn't the question about that, rather than about cases in which am Freitag can be somewhere else? | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 13:51 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "In colloquial German one would probably use neither of the examples but simply say: 'Wir haben am Freitag kein Examen'" - that means something else, or at least shifts the focus. (In particular, the meaning changes if there are several exams that may or may not be on Friday, and you are talking about a particular one of these.) If the intention is to express that the exam probably takes place, but specifically not on Friday, the colloquial way to say that would be more like "Das Examen ist nicht am Freitag." | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 12:53 | comment | added | Janka | When nicht prefixes an adverbial of time or place, one expects that time or place is wrong. Placing nicht at the end of a clause invalidates the whole clause. | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 12:08 | vote | accept | Davtho1983 | ||
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| Nov 8, 2016 at 12:05 | history | answered | Tode | CC BY-SA 3.0 |