How would I say I don't like drinking Cola because of how unhealthy it is?
Ich trinke nicht gern Cola, wegen wie ungesund es ist.
or
Ich trinke nicht gern Cola, weil wie ungesund es ist.
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Sign up to join this communityHow would I say I don't like drinking Cola because of how unhealthy it is?
Ich trinke nicht gern Cola, wegen wie ungesund es ist.
or
Ich trinke nicht gern Cola, weil wie ungesund es ist.
This grammatical construction in English – using clauses without conjunction as parts of other clauses or as attributes to nonexisting nouns – is not possible in German. In this case how unhealty it is
is a whole subclause incorporated into the clause because of how unhealthy it is
without a conjunction or as a relative clause to a noun, which doesn't exist in the clause. In German, you would need such a conjunction or noun. Furthermore, the because of …
-clause cannot be translated into German as a clause, because it misses a verb (The is
is part of the subclause, not of the because of …
-clause itself.).
The grammatically closest translation, that I can think of, is:
Ich trinke nicht gern Cola wegen des Grades, wie ungesund sie ist.
The because of
is translated as wegen
like you did yourself. But wegen
demands a nominal construction, not a clause, in German. A suitable noun would be Grad
, which than can get an attribute translating how unhealthy it is
. This is done by a relative clause.
But this translation is uncommon. One would rather say:
Ich trinke nicht gerne Cola, weil sie so ungesund ist.
Ich trinke nicht gerne Cola wegen ihrer Gesundheitsschädlichkeit. (Best translation for
unhealthyness
asUngesundheit
is a made up word. Thank you, Uwe.)Ich trinke nicht gerne Cola wegen ihrer negativen Auswirkungen auf meine Gesundheit.
Ich trinke nicht gerne Cola, weil sie nicht gut für die Gesundheit ist. (Dank an Em1 für dieses Beispiel.)
unhealthy
in beiden Fällen benutzen.
– Toscho
Nov 15 '13 at 13:59
Ich trinke nicht gern Cola, weil sie so ungesund ist.
Sie, die Cola.
Ich trinke nicht gern Cola, weil es so ungesund ist.
Es, das Trinken.
So oder so: So.