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Nov 14, 2014 - 02:31 PM
anyone?
Nov 14, 2014 - 02:57 PM
This was not adequately explained as far as I can see. Some words, like aucun, behave like "pas" in the present tense, but are different in the past such that they come after the participle. See http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content.... There are other such words, but aucun is the only one we covered. An interesting word used this way is personne which, when used after ne means nobody. He saw nobody is Il n'a vu personne.
Dec 09, 2014 - 07:35 AM
Hi Dan,
We introduce this structure with "ne... aucun" - or "ne...aucune" if you have a feminine noun- in level 5 session 28. It is a little bit different from the structure with "ne...pas" in the passé composé as you can see from the examples in that "aucun/aucune" precede a noun. So, with "ne...pas" we can negate an action as in:
Je ne suis pas allé au musée
Or a noun with "ne...pas...de":
Ce passager n'a pas enregistré de valise
That passenger didn't check in any suitcase
So "pas" goes between the auxiliary and the past participle. We usually use "ne...pas...de" to negate a noun (I didn't check in any suitcase), while "ne...aucun" is a way of adding emphasis or surprise to the negation (I didn't check in a single suitcase). The difference is that "aucun/aucune" precede the noun they negate:
Ce passager n’a enregistré aucun valise
That passenger didn't check in any suitcase
So, as we pointed out in session 28 "aucun/aucune" is a much stronger way of negating a noun. It precedes the noun it negates, whilst "pas" goes between the auxiliary and the past participle in the passé composé. I hope this helps!
We introduce this structure with "ne... aucun" - or "ne...aucune" if you have a feminine noun- in level 5 session 28. It is a little bit different from the structure with "ne...pas" in the passé composé as you can see from the examples in that "aucun/aucune" precede a noun. So, with "ne...pas" we can negate an action as in:
Je ne suis pas allé au musée
Or a noun with "ne...pas...de":
Ce passager n'a pas enregistré de valise
That passenger didn't check in any suitcase
So "pas" goes between the auxiliary and the past participle. We usually use "ne...pas...de" to negate a noun (I didn't check in any suitcase), while "ne...aucun" is a way of adding emphasis or surprise to the negation (I didn't check in a single suitcase). The difference is that "aucun/aucune" precede the noun they negate:
Ce passager n’a enregistré aucun valise
That passenger didn't check in any suitcase
So, as we pointed out in session 28 "aucun/aucune" is a much stronger way of negating a noun. It precedes the noun it negates, whilst "pas" goes between the auxiliary and the past participle in the passé composé. I hope this helps!