Placement of verb
Aurélie
Kwiziq language super star
2/11/16
Bonjour Joakim !
Here it's not about the verbs, but about the tenses they're conjugated at.
Indeed, "dire" is in Le Passé Composé, so the second part of the negation is between the auxiliary and the past participle, whereas with simple tenses, it's just after the conjugated verb.
You can have a look at these related lessons:
https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/how-to-use-ne-pas-with-compound-tenses-negation
https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/how-to-use-ne-pas-not-with-simple-tenses-negation
I hope that's helpful!
À bientôt !
Here it's not about the verbs, but about the tenses they're conjugated at.
Indeed, "dire" is in Le Passé Composé, so the second part of the negation is between the auxiliary and the past participle, whereas with simple tenses, it's just after the conjugated verb.
You can have a look at these related lessons:
https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/how-to-use-ne-pas-with-compound-tenses-negation
https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/revision/grammar/how-to-use-ne-pas-not-with-simple-tenses-negation
I hope that's helpful!
À bientôt !
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Joakim
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30 October 2016
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Placement of verb
In the examples, 'dire' goes after the two negations while 'faire' and 'aller' goes before them. What's the rule here?
This relates to:
Using double and multiple negatives (negation) -