One is called element negation and it’s done by putting nicht in front of the element you want to negate, the other one is called sentence negation, where the sentence as a whole gets negated. And for sentence negation, nicht comes at the end… or at least as late as possible.
What is the German word order?
The verb in German can be in the second position (most common), initial position (verb first), and clause-final position. The most basic word order in German, just like in English, is the subject-verb-direct object sequence: … This is the most common, basic position for conjugated verbs.
Where do you put the negation in German?
Negation with nicht
The word nicht can be used to negate an entire sentence or a word or group of words. If the word nicht is used to negate a word or group of words, then the word nicht is placed directly before the word it is negating.