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Use of jamais in French
Table of Contents

Nouns


Determiners


Personal and impersonal pronouns


Adjectives


Adverbs


Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers


Verb forms


Verb constructions


Verb and participle agreement


Tense


The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives


The infinitive


Prepositions


Question formation


Relative clauses


Negation


Conjunctions and other linking constructions

Rule[edit | edit source]

jamais is mostly used with ne to mean 'never'. It can, however, also mean 'ever' in questions, in si- clauses or when it is a complement to sans:

Examples[edit | edit source]

  • As-tu jamais vu une chose pareille?

Have you ever seen anything like it?

  • Si jamais tu rencontres Jules, tu lui diras bonjour de ma part

If you ever meet Jules, say hello to him from me

  • Il a fait cet exercice cent fois sans jamais se tromper

He's done that exercise a hundred times without ever making a mistake

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