Questions & Answers about Marie n'est pas jalouse; elle fait confiance à Paul.
In standard French, the basic way to make a verb negative is ne … pas around the conjugated verb:
- Marie est jalouse. → Marie n’est pas jalouse.
You cannot say Marie est pas jalouse in correct written French; you must include ne (which becomes n’ here) and pas.
(Spoken, informal French often drops ne, but learners should keep ne … pas for now.)
In simple tenses, the pattern is:
Subject + ne + conjugated verb + pas + rest of the sentence
In this sentence:
So you get: Marie n’est pas jalouse.
For the second clause, if it were negative, it would be:
- Elle ne fait pas confiance à Paul.