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Turn the positive sentences into negative sentences. The underlined section should be negated.
- Mi hermana canta bien.
→ [My sister sings well. → My sister doesn’t sing well.]|We generally construct negation by placing no before the conjugated verb.
- El árbol tiene todavía hojas.
→ [The tree still has leaves. → The tree doesn’t have any more leaves.]|Todavía becomes ya no…
- El vigilante está siempre allí.
→ [The guard is always there. → The guard is never there.]|The negation of siempre is no… nunca or no… jamás. But if nunca/jamás comes before the verb, we don’t use no.
- Tengo una amiga.
→ [I have a friend. → I don’t have any friend.]|No/any is translated with no… ninguna.
- Hay algo en la nevera.
→ [There’s something in the refrigerator. → There’s nothing in the refrigerator.]|The negation of algo is no… nada. Here it would be uncommon for nada to appear before the verb.
- Veo a alguien en la casa.
→ [I see someone in the house. → I see no one in the house.]|The negation of alguien is nadie. Here it would be uncommon for nadie to appear before the verb.