Talk:Esperanto: A Complete and Comprehensive Grammar/Word order

How can German speakers use this word order in negative sentences?
"just as they would in their own languages."

Well, when speaking German someone uses the adverb nicht after the verb, in sentences as follow:


 * Ich bin Arzt. Ich bin nicht Lehrer.

Translating to Esperanto, these sentences will be:


 * Mi estas kuracisto. Mi ne estas instruisto.

In fact, the follow sentence
 * Mi estas ne instruisto.

have another sense (I'm not a teacher anyway), lightly different of the upper sentence's one.

In Plena Manlibro de Esperanta Gramatiko, chapter 21, the author, Bertil Wennergren, it is said nothing about to put the negation adverb after the verb. Only to put before; before the principal verb or before the secondary one. Click here to check this.

In English it occurs as in German, because both languages are from the same "branch": (more informations here and here).
 * I am a doctor. I am not a teacher.

I wish someone with more knowledge than me teach me about this. Thanks. Retornaire (discuss • contribs) 10:06, 21 May 2011 (UTC)