Learn French: Personne ne bouge dans la rue vide. - Nobody is moving in the empty street.

Personne ne bouge dans la rue vide.

Nobody is moving in the empty street.

Breakdown of Personne ne bouge dans la rue vide.

not (used before the verb)

vide

empty

Questions & Answers about Personne ne bouge dans la rue vide.

Why is personne at the beginning of the sentence?

In this sentence, nobody is the one doing the action (the subject), just like in English. When personne is the subject, the sentence starts with Personne ne followed by the verb.

Where is the word pas?

You never use pas with a negative pronoun like personne (nobody). The ne before the verb and Personne at the start are enough to make the sentence negative.

What verb form do we use with personne?

Even though nobody might feel like it refers to a group, it grammatically counts as a singular person. We treat it just like il (he) or elle (she), which is why we use the third-person singular form bouge.

Since la rue is feminine, why doesn't the adjective vide change?

The masculine form of the adjective vide (empty) already ends in an -e. When a French adjective already ends in a silent -e, you don't add another one for feminine nouns; it stays exactly the same.