Questions & Answers about Je ne lis plus jamais rien sur cette addiction.
How do we know the order of plus, jamais, and rien?
When combining negative words, there is a specific order: plus comes first, then jamais, and finally rien or personne. Think of it as moving from time ('anymore', 'never') to things or people ('nothing', 'nobody'). Why is there no pas in this sentence?
Words like plus, jamais, and rien act as the second half of the negation, taking the place of pas. You never use pas when using these other negative words, even when you are stacking several of them together. Doesn't rien mean 'nothing'? Why is it translated as 'anything'?
French uses multiple negative words together to build a negative sentence, so je ne lis rien literally translates as 'I read nothing'. Because standard English does not use double negatives (we do not say 'I never read nothing'), we translate rien as 'anything' to make it sound natural. Do I pronounce the 's' at the end of plus here?
No. When plus is used as a negation (meaning 'not anymore'), the 's' is silent unless the next word starts with a vowel sound. Since jamais starts with a consonant, the 's' is silent. Why use sur instead of à propos de for 'about'?
While à propos de is a great way to say 'about', sur is very frequently used to mean 'on the topic of'. Using sur with verbs like lire (to read) or écrire (to write) is the most natural and concise way to say you are reading or writing about a subject. Learn Je ne lis plus jamais rien sur cette addiction and more in French
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