Translation
not; no
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Examples
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I do not know.
, .
No, I shall not come.
.
He did not tell the truth.
.
That is not good.
?
Do you not want to talk to us?
sits directly in front of whatever it denies, which is usually the verb, and on its own it is the word for "no". There is no do-support and no second particle to remember: is the whole of "I am not coming". Keep one negative per clause, because the neni- words already contain it, so means "nobody came" with no extra . For the opposite of a word rather than the denial of a sentence, use the prefix -: gives .
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Grammar articles
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Esperanto Aspect Affixes: ek-, re-, -ad-, dis- and mis-
Listening to Esperanto: What to Actually Listen To
Esperanto -us and -u: Conditional and Imperative
Esperanto Connectors: tamen, kvankam, eĉ se, do and tial
Esperanto Correlatives in Use: tiu kiu, tio kion and More
Esperanto Correlatives Table: All 45 Words on One Grid
Esperanto Demonstratives: Tiu, Tio and ĉi for This
Esperanto Conversation Words: nu, do, ja, fakte, cetere
Esperantismo and the Interna Ideo: What Esperanto Is For
Finvenkismo and Raŭmismo: Esperanto's Big Argument
Who Decides Correct Esperanto? Fundamento and Akademio
Gender in Esperanto: -in-, ge-, and the Reform That Waits
Esperanto Greetings: Saluton, Dankon and Survival Phrases
The History of Esperanto in Ten Episodes, 1859 to Today
Homaranismo: Zamenhof's Creed, Kept Apart from Esperanto
Esperanto Impersonal Sentences: oni, pluvas, estas varme
Esperanto Interjections: Ho, Nu, Ve and Sound Words
Esperanto Question Words: Kiu, Kio, Kie and the Ki- Table
After the Esperanto Course: What to Do Next (Kien de Ĉi Tie)
Esperanto Food and Cooking Words: Kuirarto kaj Manĝo
The Esperanto Congress: Universala Kongreso and Its Words
Esperanto Body Parts: La Korpo, Head to Foot
Esperanto Grammar on One Page: All 16 Rules
Negation in Esperanto: ne, the neni- Words and nek
Unofficial Esperanto Affixes: -oz-, -iv- and the Rest
Esperanto Numbers: Counting With Nine Roots, No Exceptions
Esperanto Punctuation, Spelling and Abbreviations
Spoken Esperanto: What People Actually Say
Esperanto Particles: ĉi tiu, ju...des, ajn and mem
Personal Names in Esperanto: Johano, John or Ĝon?
Esperanto Personal Pronouns: mi, vi, li, ŝi and mia
Esperanto Prepositions: The Full List, With Examples
Esperanto Proverbs: 15 From Zamenhof's Proverbaro
How to Ask Questions in Esperanto: Ĉu, Tags and Answers
Esperanto Reported Speech: li diris, ke li venos
Esperanto Rhyme and Metre: Counting Syllables, Adasismo
Scientific Esperanto: The Register That Almost Won
Esperanto Slang: Sound Like an Insider, Not a Textbook
Esperanto Subordinate Clauses: ke, kiu, kiam and Commas
The Esperanto Article la: When to Use It and When Not
Esperanto Verbs and Prepositions: Which One Each Verb Takes
Esperanto Word Endings: -o, -a, -e and -i
Esperanto Word Order: Emphasis, ne and ankaŭ
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 3: Your first ten words.