Negative words are used in different settings in German. Learn how to place nicht in a sentence, how to use kein correctly and get to grips with negative words such as weder… noch…, doch and nie.
Part ofGermanGrammar (for exams until 2025)
Remember that nicht comes before all of the following:
Place nicht before an adjective and its intensifier:
Place nicht before prepositions and prepositional phrases:
Make these sentences negative by adding nicht. What do they mean?
Normally nicht is also placed before adverbs or adverbial phrases, eg:
However, nicht normally follows adverbial phrases of time, like gestern, heute, morgen, früher, später, eg: