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2.6.6.2 Negative pronouns
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The negative pronouns nemens ‘nobody’ and niks ‘nothing’ are indeclinable.

1
Nemens kon moor waikiekje. ‘Nobody could look away anymore.’
2
Wan ze uurs niks kriege kuden. ‘When they couldn’t get anything else.’

The negative quantifier naan/neen is declinable: naan goes with masculine singular nouns, neen with all other nouns, just like the numeral aan/een: naan Foar ‘no father’, neen Muur ‘no mother’, neen Bäiden ‘no child’, neen uur Ljude ‘no other people’.

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