German Question?!?!?!?!?

[blasword]

Hey adoring german-speaking readers, i have a problem and perhaps one of you could provide the answer

I am currently doing my german homework, and either due to my own forgetfulness or my loss of notes I am a bit unsure how to complete it.

I am being asked if someone (does) something, and I am supposed to answer in the negative. I am a bit unsure

Comments

[vaeldriil]

I am not a German speaker, nor do I play one on TV. I do, however, have a German One book that gives the following examples:

HeiBen sie Busch? Nein, ich heiBe nicht Busch.
HeiBt du Dieter? Nein, ich heiBe nicht Dieter.
Es geht mir nicht gut.
Ich heiBe nicht Schmidt.

(the capital B in the middle of heiBen and heiBe is the fancy script B thinger)

And it says "The position of nicht in a sentence can vary. One common position is just before the element that is being negated."

...I dunno if that helps much or not. This book ist nicht the clearest in the world in teaching (which is why I've not attempted to use it to begin learning German).

[vaeldriil]

AHA! Found a list in a different German book..

Nicht usually follows the verb plus its objects and adverbs of time..

Seine Schwester schreibt ihm nicht. (his sister is not writing to him)
Sie spelt jetzt nicht, sie lernt. (She is not playing now; she is studying.)

Nicht usually precedes adverbs of manner or place:

Unsere Kinder lernen nicht gerne. (our children don't like to study.)

Nicht usually precededs prepositional phrases.

Die Manner gehen nicht in die Hauser. (The men are not going into the houses.)

Nicht usually precedes predicate nouns and adjectives:

Dieser Mann ist nicht mein Onkel. (This man is not my uncle.)
Dieser Mann ist nicht alt. (This man is not old.)

...That should be quite a bit more helpful than the other.

[ceosanna]

I think your first answers to both of the ones you're unsure on are correct, but it's been so long since I've actively tried to arrange a sentence that I don't trust my own judgment.