Questions & Answers about Ce bibelot n'a aucune valeur.
Why isn't there a pas in this sentence?
The word aucune (none / not any) works together with n' to form a negative, just like pas does. When you use a negative word like aucun(e), jamais (never), or rien (nothing), you drop the pas. Why is it aucune and not aucun?
Aucun acts as an adjective and has to agree in gender with the noun it describes. Because valeur (value) is a feminine noun, we use the feminine form aucune. Why don't we need de here, like we do in pas de valeur?
Aucune acts as a direct replacement for the article, meaning it sits right next to the noun. While you would use de with pas (Ce bibelot n'a pas de valeur), you drop the de when using aucun(e) (Ce bibelot n'a aucune valeur). Since the current lesson is about puisque (since), how could we use it to connect this sentence to an action?
You use puisque to state a cause that is already known, obvious, or hard to argue with. You could say: Je le jette, puisque ce bibelot n'a aucune valeur (I am throwing it away, since this trinket has no value). It perfectly justifies your action using a known fact! Just a refresher: why is it ce bibelot instead of cet bibelot?
Ce is the standard masculine singular word for "this" or "that". You only change it to cet when the masculine noun starts with a vowel or a silent H (like cet objet). Because bibelot starts with a consonant, we stick with ce. Learn Ce bibelot n'a aucune valeur and more in French
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