Translation
nowhere
Word origin
A correlative from Zamenhof's table: the negative prefix nen- plus the place ending -ie. It sits in the same row as ie ('somewhere'), tie ('there') and ĉie ('everywhere').
- Origin
- Esperanto correlative system
- Root
- nen- + -ie
Examples
, .
I looked for my keys, but found them nowhere.
.
Nowhere in the town can you buy bread like that.
, .
I looked everywhere, but the dog was nowhere.
answers the question ? with a flat no. Like every negative correlative it carries its own negation, so you do not add : , not . For movement towards a place it takes the accusative: .
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