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pagtanggi ...negation (ne - ga - tion)

Pagtanggi mangyari nina tahimik " hindi " matapos ang conjugated pandiwa di a hatulan. di ingles tayo hindi kailan man gumamit a doblihin pagtanggi. (Eg. Doesn't magkulang wala. )
Negation occurs by placing "not" after the conjugated verb in a sentence.
In English we never use a double negative. (Eg. doesn't want nothing)

Simple Negation
Tagalog
English
Siya ay hindi at turuan ang araw na ito. She is not at school today.
Tayo gumawa hindi magkulang sa bumili ang bahay. We do not want to purchase the house.
John may hindi sumagot akin tanungin. John has not answered my question.

Négation - Negación en la forma de una pregunta. - Negation in the form of a question.
Tagalog
English
Contraction
Maaari ka hindi lumakad? Can you not go? Can't you go?
Paano could siya hindi lumakad? How could she not go? How couldn't she go?
Nasain John hindi sumagot akin tanungin? Will John not answer my question? John won't answer my question?

Négation - Negation (special forms)
Tagalog
English
Hindi isa tao humakbang babalaan. No one person stepped foreward.
Wala humakbang babalaan. None stepped foreward.
Siya pagsikapan pataasin kumuha wala. She ended up with nothing.
Diyan was nowhere dahil sa kanya sa lumakad. There was nowhere for him to go.
I'll hindi kailan man lumakad kumuha ka. I'll never go with you.
Siya maibigan ni sino man ay hindi ng kanila. She liked neither of them.

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