The French Negation Ne .. pas, and more! // French Grammar Course // Lesson 12 🇫🇷

The French negation is made out of 2 words, ne and pas for the most common one. It's placed around the verb, but in spoken French, only pas is pronounced. Learn all the rules of the fRench negation in 12 minutes!
- The French negation: ne pas, ne plus, ne jamais, ne rien, etc.
- Negation followed by de: when to change the article after a negation
- Negation in speech: sound like a French native speaker!
- Negation + infinitive verb: ne pas followed by the infinitive verb
- Negation with passé composé: where to place the pas, before or after the past participle
- Negation, passé composé and reflexive verbs: where to place the pas, before or after the past participle
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0:00 Intro
00:47 French negation
04:05 Negation followed by de
06:07 Negation in speech
07:46 Negation + infinitive verb
09:24 Negation with passé composé
10:38 Negation, passé composé and reflexive verbs
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I came here because I wanted to know the rule of negation for reflective verbs. Does the rule of negation with infinitive apply to reflective verbs? thanks

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In the case of infinitive verbs, What of ‘he is not asking me to come ?’

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At 6:01

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9:14

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2nd question: you mentioned we have to change the indéfinis (un, une, des.. etc) in negation, right. In 5:51, why Ce n'est pas UN chat, not ce n'est pas DE chat?

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J'ai dit que ce n'était pas aussi commun que les autres ;)

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when you said that when a negation is followed by an article(un,une,des)it forms into a d' or de in the negation but when you said that this is not the case for some other articles and showed the examples at the timestamp 6:00 the ssentence says tu es une danseuse and you put out the negation as tu n'est pas une danseuse then how come 'une' is not included in the list of articles that don't change in a negation and how come it changes when you showed a exaple earlier please help me

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Why is there no liaison between "pas" and "encore" in the 6th negation?

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Hello madame, Il a une chance wouln't change to Il n'a que de chance?

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Can you say « je ne suis pas mange » to replace je ne mange pas ?

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Why don't we pronounce the "s" in "ne...plus"

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Never pronounce it in the negative ;)

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@3.27 Pas de liaison pour " Pas Encore " ......??? PaZ-Encore?

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Optionnel ;)

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Ok 1:02

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Ok 0:57

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Il a qu'une chance. Why doesn't the une change into de here?🤔

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Because it's after que ;)

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avec l'exemple suivant: "tu as de l'eau - tu n'as plus d'eau" pourquoi "de l'eau" deviens "d'eau" --- où est le "l" ?

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When in a negative sentence, lots of articles become de :)

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Thank you :D It does make me question if I look cute with glasses tho😅

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ne ... que , might not be considered as negation.

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It is in French :)

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Please help. Il a une chance. Il n'a qu'une chance. Why not Il n'a que de chance.

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Because une chance doesn’t change after que :)

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@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane So after que, un, une & des do not change to de is that correct?

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Il y a d'autres chaînes dans ce cas ;)

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