French Vocabulary: Commonly Used Negative Expressions
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French Vocabulary: Commonly Used Negative Expressions
le vocabulaire française: des expressions négatives communes
Negation lets us say “no” to things in French! It also lets us express that things are NOT a certain way.
Review:
Study:
Ça ne fait rien. : It doesn’t matter. / No big deal. / It’s okay.
Ça ne me dit rien. : It doesn’t ring a bell. / It doesn’t sound familiar to me.
Ce n’est rien. : It’s nothing.
De rien. : You’re welcome.
Il n’y a pas de quoi. : You’re welcome. (formal)
Jamais de la vie! : Never! / Not a chance! / Not on your life! / No way! / Out of the question!
N’en pouvoir plus. : to be exhausted / to be fed up with / can’t take it anymore
N’importe. : It doesn’t matter. / It makes no difference. / Whatever. / Whichever.
N’importe comment. : It doesn’t matter how.
N’importe où. : It doesn’t matter where.
N’importe quand. : It doesn’t matter when.
N’importe qui. : It doesn’t matter who.
(Ni …) non plus. : Neither / Not either / Nor
Pas aujourd’hui. : Not today.
Pas du tout. : Not at all.
Pas encore. : Not yet.
Pas question! : No way! / No question! / Not a chance!
Pas maintenant. : Not now.
Pas trop. : Not too much. / Not so much. / Not really.
Personne ne (le) sait. : No one knows (about it).
Rien d’autre. : Nothing else.
Adapt:
Il n’est pas encore là ni elle non plus.
He is not here yet and neither is she.
Je ferai la vaisselle mais pas maintenant.
I will do the dishes but not now.
Ces gosses me rendent folle! Je n’en peux plus!
These kids are driving me crazy! I can’t take it anymore!
Elle n’aime pas danser? Moi non plus.
She doesn’t like to dance? Me neither. (Neither do I.)
Vous avez oublié l’argent? Ça ne fait rien.
You all forgot the money? No big deal.
Tu veux que je saute d’un avion? Jamais de la vie!
You (informal) want me to jump out of a plane? Not on your life!
Où veux-tu aller en vacances?
Where do you want to go on vacation?
N’importe où.
It doesn’t matter where.
Explore:
- YouTube/AlexaPolidoro: Simple Negations – part 1
- YouTube/Alexa Polidoro: Simple Negations – part 2
- YouTube/YouLearnFrench: La négation
- YouTube/Frencheezee: Learn French Negation – La négation
- YouTube/imagiers: La négation
- YouTube/LearnFrenchWithPascal: negation difficulties in French
- YouTube/LearnFrenchWithPascal: French Negation, the Negative in French
- YouTube/LearnFrenchWithPascal: Negation in French – Part 2
- YouTube/LearnFrenchWithPascal: Nothing, nobody, negation
