ni/ni/

Examples

• Je ne veux ni café ni thé, merci.

  I want neither coffee nor tea, thank you.

• Il n'aime ni le froid ni la pluie.

  He likes neither the cold nor the rain.

Collocations

• ni l'un ni l'autreneither one nor the other
• ni... ni...neither... nor...
• ni oui ni nonneither yes nor no

Common mistakes

• ni... ou...

  ni... ni...

  The conjunction 'ni' connects two negative elements; using 'ou' instead changes the meaning from negation to disjunction.

• ni pas... ni...

  ni... ni...

  'Ni' already expresses negation and should not be combined with 'pas' to avoid double negation.

Related words

• antonymouor

• synonymnon plusneither

Grammar note

The conjunction ni is used to connect two negative elements, expressing "neither... nor...".