Entweder … oder / weder … noch – Telc B1

Intermediate German
Created by Best · 12.04.2026 at 16:05 UTC

entweder … oder (either … or) and weder … noch (neither … nor) are two-part connectors.

entweder … oder: Du kannst entweder Kaffee oder Tee trinken. (You can drink either coffee or tea.)
weder … noch: Er trinkt weder Kaffee noch Tee. (He drinks neither coffee nor tea.)

Negation: weder … noch is already negative; don’t add nicht to the verb when the negation is in the pair. Sie hat weder Zeit noch Geld. (She has neither time nor money.)

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Question 1

"Weder ... noch" means:

Question 2

In "Er isst weder Fleisch noch Fisch", is an extra "nicht" needed?

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