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Grammar detail: irregular negative forms

irregular negative forms
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Various irregular negative forms exist. Some are modern colloquial variants in current use. Some are literary or classical forms which you may encounter in older texts, or which may still be used to invoke a formal or literary sense.

ん

ん sometimes replaces ない in a verb form. This is a colloquial, somewhat 'rough' form, commonly used in speech. It occurs commonly in the word すまん, shortened from すまない (the plain form of すみません).
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すまんミスった。
Sorry, I made a mistake.
Another common usage is to form the negative of とする (try to do) - としない becomes the (irregular) とせん.
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そと
外
の
せかい
世界
に
で
出
ようとせんのですな。
She does not even try to go out into the world.
Source: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド（村上 春樹）

ぬ

ぬ negative
 
classical negative form

せん

せん is a colloquial form of しない. It is common as an alternative to としない.
DETAILS
そと
外
の
せかい
世界
に
で
出
ようとせんのですな。
She does not even try to go out into the world.
Source: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド（村上 春樹）

ざる

ざる negative
 
archaic negative
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Kanji used in this grammar

外
ガイ   ゲ   そと outside   ほか other   はずす to remove, mislead   はずれる to come off, to miss   
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世
セ   セイ   よ the world   
2
界
カイ    world   
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2
出
シュツ   スイ   だす to take out, to put out   でる to go out, to exit   
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