Negation
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Standard negation
Quenya has two main ways to form a negative clause:
- negation adverb ú
- zero quantifiers, such as úquen nobody, úlume never, etc (→ 31).
Quenya differs somewhat from English in how these two methods interact with each other.
- úquen túle hai ‘nobody arrived on time’
- melden úquen ambe lá·se ‘I didn’t love anyone more than her’
- cennenye·s úlume ‘I have never seen him’
- cennenye úquen ‘I didn’t see anyone’ (lit. ‘I saw nobody’)
Prohibitive
Under construction