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When you are making a negative sentence using more than one negative word like "pas," "jamais," "plus," "encore" etc etc
What is the correct word order?
would you say je n'ai jamais plus?
je n'ai plus jamais?
Je n'ai encore jamais?

Any information about this subject would really help!

Thanks!

2007-04-29 07:26:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

4 answers

First of all: In French, the double negative should be always avoided!

Instead of saying "Je ne serais pas jamais une mauvaise fille", you should say "Je ne serais jamais une mauvaise fille!" or "Je serais jaimais une mauvaise fille!", i. e., excluding "pas".

So, the correct would be:

"Je n'ai jamais..." or "Je n'ai pas..." or "Je n'ai plus..."

"Je n'ai pas encore..." , or J'ai pas encore", J'ai jamais..." or "Je n'ai jamais...".

N.: "Encore" is not a negative and it correspond to the English "still" or "yet".

2007-04-29 07:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by sandworm_arrakis 4 · 2 0

I've been chewing this one over for about ten minutes and still can't think of many situations where you would need to combine 'pas', 'jamais' or 'plus'.

I don't like you - j ne t'aime pas.
I don't like you any more - je ne t'aime plus.
I've never liked you - je ne t'ai jamais aimé.

You can combine 'plus' and 'jamais' as in 'he will never come back' = 'il ne reviendra plus jamais' and 'never again!' = 'jamais plus' or 'plus jamais'

Encore is not a negative.

2007-04-29 08:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by JJ 7 · 0 0

en le faisant means "whilst doing it" en y allant means "whilst going" En en mangeant might recommend whilst eating a number of it interior the negatives , the le might pass.. je lui ai dit de ne pas LE faire je lui ai dit de ne pas EN manger

2016-12-29 16:49:10 · answer #3 · answered by anavitate 4 · 0 0

answer n°1 is the right one;I'm French;

2007-04-29 09:08:50 · answer #4 · answered by Dori 6 · 0 0

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