Re: Negation?

> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >         Well, I'm not very clear I think. So I'm going to explain it
better:
> > - In English, verbs (assertions) are all negated by 'not' with an
auxiliary,
> > - In French, we use 'ne', with 'pas', 'plus', etc...
> > - In Spanish, there is 'no',
> > - In Japanese, you use -nai or -masen (and compounds of them),
>
> In Finnish, you have an inflected verb to negate another, essentially
> something like
> I-do-not see
> to negate
> I-see
In Maltese, there is a prefix and a suffix, as in French...

ghandek - you have
mghandekx - you don't have

btw, thats pronounced /a:ndek/ and /ma:ndeS/. Of course, not have a
verbing to be, negatives of that are formed by negating the pronoun.

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