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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).
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.
ぬ
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.
ざる
archaic negative
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