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Original Message: My mother tongue of Czech is a bit tricky with respect to this, too...
In a negative sentence, you use negative pronouns and adverbs, too. But those don't cancel out, nor do they add in any way . So you get things like: I don't know anything => Nic nevím (lit. I don't know nothing) Nobody has ever done this yet => Nikdo to ještě nikdy neudělal (lit.: nobody hasn't never done this yet) I've never did anything wrong to anyone => Nikdy jsem nikomu neudělal nic špatného. (lit. I haven't never done nothing wrong to no one.). (It's probably the same way in Russian. The Slavonic languages can be a bit tricky... )

Original Message: My mother tongue of Czech is a bit tricky with respect to this, too...

In a negative sentence, you use negative pronouns and adverbs, too. But those don't cancel out, nor do they add in any way

. So you get things like:

I don't know anything => Nic nevím (lit. I don't know nothing)

Nobody has ever done this yet => Nikdo to ještě nikdy neudělal (lit.: nobody hasn't never done this yet)

I've never did anything wrong to anyone => Nikdy jsem nikomu neudělal nic špatného. (lit. I haven't never done nothing wrong to no one.).

(It's probably the same way in Russian. The Slavonic languages can be a bit tricky... )

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