Tamazight Negation
Learning the Tamazight Negation is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Tamazight language. But first we need to know what the role of Negation is in the structure of the grammar in Tamazight.
Tamazight negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement (I am happy) into its opposite denial (I am not happy). Here are some examples:
| English Negation | Tamazight Negation |
| Negation | |
| he is not here | ourilla ghid |
| that is not my book | ourd lktab niw aynna |
| do not enter | addour tekchemt |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Negation in Tamazight has a logical pattern. Locate the Negation above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Berber.
List of Negation in Tamazight
Below is a list of the Negation and negative expressions in Tamazight placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Tamazight vocabulary.
| English Negation | Tamazight Negation |
| I don't speak | ourar sawal7 |
| I don't write | ourar ttara7 |
| I don't drive | ourar ttsoug7 |
| I don't love | ourar ttiri7 |
| I don't give | ourar akka7 |
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| I don't take | ourar ttasi7 |
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| he doesn't speak | ourar isawal |
| he doesn't write | ourar ittara |
| he doesn't drive | ourar ittsoug |
| he doesn't love | ourar ittiri |
| he doesn't give | ourar yakka |
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| he doesn't take | ourar ittasi |
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| we don't speak | ourar nsawal |
| we don't write | ourar nttara |
| we don't drive | ourar nttsoug |
| we don't love | ourar nttiri |
| we don't give | ourar nakka |
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| we don't take | ourar nttasi |
Negation and negative expressions have a very important role in Tamazight, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with the Berber Negation, you might want to check the rest of our Tamazight lessons here: Learn Tamazight. Don't forget to bookmark this page.