Translation
never
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Examples
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I never said this.
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I have never seen him.
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I have never heard such a thing before.
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Always or never.
laborat.
He is never not working.
is plus , "not ever". The spelling nunquam is the same word: m before qu was regularly written n in later manuscripts, and printed texts use both, so do not treat them as different entries. Its positive partner , "ever", appears in questions, conditions and after a negative.
Because Latin cancels negatives instead of stacking them, means "always" and means "sometimes". That is the figure grammar books call litotes, and it is a deliberate understatement, not a slip. sits in a tidy set of - words that each deny a different thing: a time, nusquam a place, a person, a thing, any of them as an adjective.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 12: numquam, ideo, navis and 11 more words.