Word
Nous n'allons jamais louer cette maison.
Meaning
We are never going to rent this house.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Nous n'allons jamais louer cette maison.
nous
we / us (object pronoun)
la maison
the house
ne
not (used before the verb)
ce
this (before a noun)
Questions & Answers about Nous n'allons jamais louer cette maison.
Why are n' and jamais placed around allons instead of the main verb louer?
In the near future tense, the negative words always go around the conjugated verb. Here, that is the helping verb aller (allons). The infinitive verb (louer) stays outside and comes right after the negative chunk.
Why isn't the word pas used here?
Why is it n'allons instead of ne allons?
In French, the negative word ne drops its e and attaches to the next word with an apostrophe if that word starts with a vowel or a silent H. Since allons starts with a vowel, ne becomes n'.