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Turn the positive sentences into negative sentences by negating the underlined part of the sentence.
ne… pas (2x), ne… jamais, ne… plus, ne… aucun (optional)
- Ma sœur chante bien.
→ [My sister can’t sing well.]|The predicate comes between ne and pas.
- L’arbre a encore des feuilles.
→ [The tree has no more leaves.]|Encore is replaced with the negative form ne … plus.|We use the partitive article de after the negation → l’arbre n’a plus de feuilles (and not des feuilles).
- Le gardien est toujours là.
→ [The guard is never there.]|In combination with the adverb ne, jamais is the negation of toujours.
- J’ai une amie.
→ [I don’t have a girlfriend.|I don’t have a single (female) friend.]|Any in a negative sense is translated as ne … pas de/d’ or ne … aucun.
- Tu ris gaiement.
→ [You’re not laughing happily.]|The predicate comes between ne and pas.