Negative words in spanish how to#

We can also use this word to agree with a negative sentence that has been said before. Yo tampoco salté.(I did not jump either.)Īs you can see in both of these sentences, tampoco appears before the verbs ( contar, saltar).Hoy tampoco conté a los perros en el parque.(Today I did not count the dogs at the park either.).In most cases, we’ll want to place tampoco before the verb in the sentence. El camarero no vino el lunes, y tampoco vino el viernes.(The waiter did not come on Monday, and he did not come on Friday either.).With that small change, we’re involving another sentence (which is implicit) in our example, so we could form a more complex sentence: El camarero tampoco vino el viernes.(The waiter did not come on Friday either.).However, if we use tampoco instead of no, we wouldn’t just be saying that the waiter didn’t come, but that this has already happened another time: It states that the subject ( el camarero) didn’t perform ( no vino el viernes). This is a negative sentence that denies an action. El camarero no vino el viernes.(The waiter did not come on Friday.).Don’t have our app yet? Download it here! Tip: Click on any of the linked sentences in this article (while on a mobile) to add them directly to your Fluent Forever app, so you can study them later. Tampoco is very similar to “neither” in English: we use it to mean that something is not true.

Negative words in spanish how to#

Now that we’ve learned the basics of how to make a sentence negative, let’s explore how to use one of those words that give sentences a negative sense: tampoco.