Meine Schwester findet meine Handschrift schön, aber ohne Leerzeichen liest niemand den Text gern.

Because it belongs to two different nouns:

• meine Schwester = my sister
• meine Handschrift = my handwriting

In German, possessive words like mein / meine / meinen change depending on the gender, number, and case of the noun they go with.

Here:

• Schwester is feminine singular, nominative
• Handschrift is also feminine singular, accusative

For feminine singular, meine is the correct form in both of those cases, so it happens to look the same twice.

In this sentence, finden is being used in a very common German pattern:

• etwas schön finden
• literally: to find something beautiful
• natural English: to think something is beautiful

So:

• Meine Schwester findet meine Handschrift schön = My sister thinks my handwriting is beautiful

This works like English find in sentences such as I find this interesting.

Because schön is not directly describing a noun here. It is a predicate adjective.

Compare:

• meine schöne Handschrift = my beautiful handwriting
  Here, schöne comes before the noun and needs an ending.

• Meine Schwester findet meine Handschrift schön = My sister finds my handwriting beautiful
  Here, schön comes after the noun and does not take an ending.

In German, predicate adjectives usually stay in their basic form:

• Das ist schön
• Ich finde das interessant
• Sie ist müde

Because aber is a coordinating conjunction, and in German it normally introduces a new main clause.

So the sentence has two main clauses:

1. Meine Schwester findet meine Handschrift schön
2. aber ohne Leerzeichen liest niemand den Text gern

German usually separates such clauses with a comma.

German often puts an adverbial phrase first for emphasis or style. Here:

• ohne Leerzeichen = without spaces

By placing it first, the sentence emphasizes the condition:

• but without spaces, nobody likes reading the text

This is very normal in German. The first position in a main clause does not have to be the subject.

Because German main clauses follow the verb-second rule.

In the second clause, ohne Leerzeichen is in the first position. That means the conjugated verb must come next:

1. ohne Leerzeichen
2. liest
3. niemand
4. den Text
5. gern

So:

• Ohne Leerzeichen liest niemand den Text gern

If you started with the subject, you would get:

• Niemand liest den Text ohne Leerzeichen gern

That is also grammatically possible, but it has a different focus and sounds less natural for the intended meaning.

Ohne always takes the accusative case.

So ohne Leerzeichen means without spaces, with Leerzeichen in the accusative plural.

There is no article because German often leaves out articles in general expressions like this, especially when talking about something in a broad, non-specific way:

• ohne Zucker = without sugar
• ohne Probleme = without problems
• ohne Leerzeichen = without spaces

If you added an article, it would sound more specific:

• ohne die Leerzeichen = without the spaces

Niemand means nobody / no one.

In this sentence, it is the subject of liest:

• niemand liest den Text gern = nobody likes reading the text

It is a very common indefinite pronoun. You can think of it as the opposite of jemand (someone).

Because lesen takes a direct object, and direct objects are usually in the accusative case.

So:

• der Text = nominative
• den Text = accusative

Here, the text is what nobody reads gladly, so it is the direct object:

• liest den Text

Gern means something like:

• gladly
• with pleasure
• or, in many contexts, like to

In this sentence:

• niemand liest den Text gern = nobody likes reading the text or more literally: = nobody reads the text gladly

German often uses gern where English uses like to:

• Ich lese gern. = I like reading.
• Sie kocht gern. = She likes cooking.

Yes. Gern and gerne mean the same thing.

So both are possible:

• ... liest niemand den Text gern
• ... liest niemand den Text gerne

Gern is slightly shorter and very common in everyday German. There is no important difference in meaning here.

Because in German, all nouns are capitalized.

So in this sentence:

• Schwester
• Handschrift
• Leerzeichen
• Text

all start with capital letters because they are nouns.

This is one of the most noticeable differences from English writing.

It is singular.

• meine Handschrift = my handwriting

In German, Handschrift often refers to a person’s handwriting as a general quality or style, just like English handwriting does.

So this does not mean multiple handwritten texts; it means the way the person writes.

Yes, but the emphasis would change.

The original is:

• aber ohne Leerzeichen liest niemand den Text gern

This emphasizes without spaces.

You could also say:

• aber niemand liest den Text ohne Leerzeichen gern

This is grammatical, but it can sound like without spaces is attached more directly to reads the text, and it may be slightly less neat stylistically in this context.

German allows several word orders, but the original version is very natural because it highlights the problem first: without spaces.