Ništa ne traje zauvijek.

Nothing lasts forever.

Breakdown of Ništa ne traje zauvijek.

• ne: not
• trajati: to last
• ništa: nothing
• zauvijek: forever

Questions & Answers about Ništa ne traje zauvijek.

Why does Croatian use both ništa and ne in the same sentence? In English we usually avoid a double negative.

Croatian normally uses negative concord, which means multiple negative elements appear together in the same sentence.

So:

• Ništa ne traje zauvijek. = Nothing lasts forever.

Here:

• ništa = nothing
• ne = the negative particle used with the verb
• traje = lasts

In standard Croatian, if you use a negative word like ništa, nitko, nikad, etc., the verb is also usually negated with ne.

Compare:

• Ništa ne vidim. = I see nothing.
• Nitko ne dolazi. = Nobody is coming.
• Nikad ne kasnim. = I am never late.

So this is completely normal Croatian grammar, not an error.

What grammatical form is ništa here?