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The negative formUsing negatives with the perfect tense

Do you you know how to use the negative form? In French ne ... pas means 'not' and it is used around the main verb of sentence to turn it from a positive into a negative.

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Using negatives with the perfect tense

In the perfect tense the negative forms go around the initial part of avoir or 锚迟谤别:

  • je n'ai pas parl茅 脿 Marie - I haven't spoken to Marie
  • elle 苍鈥est pas all茅e 脿 la f锚te - she did苍鈥檛 go to the party

When two verbs are used together in a sentence, the ne ... pas goes around the first:

  • il ne peut pas aller au cin茅ma - he can't go to the cinema
  • je ne vais plus manger de viande - I'm not going to eat meat anymore
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