Re:Why is zero plural? (2024)
by Tainnor on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:16AM
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IIRC, formally "personne" has to be used with the "ne" negation in order to mean 'nobody', such as "personne ne l'a vu", which makes a certain kind of sense ('a person hasn't seen it' -> nobody has seen it). But French people usually drop "ne" in spoken language.
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You're right as far as I know.
But it's also funny to type in both "nobody" and "anybody" into Google translate and they both translate to "personne".
“Sans personne” means “without anyone” and has no “ne”.