Translation
no one
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Examples
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Nobody came.
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Nobody knows this.
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I am afraid of no one.
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I have said this to nobody.
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There is nobody who believes this.
is plus , "not a man", and it inflects on that second half: , accusative , dative . The genitive and ablative are borrowed from , giving and , because and nemine are avoided in classical prose. It is masculine or feminine according to who is meant, never neuter: the neuter partner is , "nothing".
Two constructions come with it. A relative clause after goes into the SUBJUNCTIVE, because it describes a type of person rather than picking out an individual: . And, as always in Latin, two negatives cancel rather than reinforce, so means "somebody", means "everybody", and neither is a mistake.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 12: nemo, numquam, ideo and 11 more words.