Category:Russian negative adverbs

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Russian nouns, pronouns, adjectives & numerals decline in gender: (masc, fem, neut), number and case: (nom, gen, dat, acc, inst, prep). Russian adv, conj, interj, prep stay the same. Russian verbs have 3 tenses, 2 aspects; aspectual pairs are formed: via prefixation, via suffixation and lexically. Beware of Russian verbs of position and motion!

Russian adverbs

The negative particles ни and не help form the adverbs никогда (never) and некогда (once). Compare them with the adverbs of place никуда and некуда.

The particle ни is used in personal sentences, while the particle не is used in impersonal sentences. For example:

Я никогда не был в Риме. (I have never been to Rome.)
Мне некогда участвовать в соревнованиях. (I have no time to engage in a contest.)

Note that the verb участвовать is in the infinitive, because the sentence is impersonal.

Его нигде нет.
Ему негде жить.
Мне никогда не жарко.
Мне некогда спать.
Его никуда не спрячешь.
Ему некуда деваться.
Ниоткуда нет писем.
Неоткуда ему быть опытным.
Ей никак не объяснишь это.
У него всё не как у людей.

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