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Notice that although ne is always required in written French, you'll often hear it dropped in informal speech.
However, you can never omit pas
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Ron
Kwiziq community member
27/10/17
Bonjour Michael,
As Aurélie points out in the lesson, the «ne» is typically dropped during verbal discourse but not in written language. To my knowledge, this holds true with all of the negation structures. This is in the informal or familiar register of French. Written French is considered more formal register, the only exception being with textos, emails and tweets. However, if one does these, it is certainly not considered improper to include «le ne».
As Aurélie points out in the lesson, the «ne» is typically dropped during verbal discourse but not in written language. To my knowledge, this holds true with all of the negation structures. This is in the informal or familiar register of French. Written French is considered more formal register, the only exception being with textos, emails and tweets. However, if one does these, it is certainly not considered improper to include «le ne».
CrystalMaiden
Kwiziq community member
1 May 2018
1 reply
Not always required in written French, actually.
" Notice that although ne is always required in written French. "
In games like Pokemon they can omit the " ne, " rather than having all the characters speak more formally all the time. So it's not always required, is it? Not in character dialogue.
Cécile
Kwiziq language super star
18 May 2018
18/05/18
Hi CrystalMaiden,
The rules are probably slacker in the world of games but in any dialogue form the speech would be written as spoken.
Hope this helps!