Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Never Can Be Ever

In an earlier post, I used the words "jamais", "aucun" and "plus" to indicate the negative. As a reminder, here are three examples with these words used to make negative statements:

Examples (with negative statements)

Nous n'avons jamais été en Amérique du Sud.
[We have never been to South America.]

Je n'en ai aucun.
[I do not have any.]

Il n'y a plus d'aliment.
[There is no more food.]


These same words can also be used to make positive statements. All we need to do is to drop 'ne'.

Examples (with positive statements)

C'est la chose la plus bizarre que j'ai jamais vu.
[It is the strangest thing I have ever seen.]

Est-ce que tu en as aucun?
[Do you have any?]

Il ya plus d'aliment dans la cuisine.
[There is more food in the kitchen.]

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