Bosnian Negation
Learning the Bosnian Negation is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Bosnian language. But first we need to know what the role of Negation is in the structure of the grammar in Bosnian.
Bosnian 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 | Bosnian Negation |
| Negation | Negacija |
| he is not here | Nije ovdje |
| that is not my book | to nije moja knjiga |
| do not enter | ne ulaze |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Negation in Bosnian has a logical pattern. Locate the Negation above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Bosniac.
List of Negation in Bosnian
Below is a list of the Negation and negative expressions in Bosnian placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Bosnian vocabulary.
| English Negation | Bosnian Negation |
| I don't speak | Ja ne govorim |
| I don't write | Ne pisati |
| I don't drive | Ne vozite |
| I don't love | Ja ne volim |
| I don't give | Ne daju |
| I don't smile | Ne osmijeh |
| I don't take | JA dont 'uzeti |
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| he doesn't speak | uopće ne govori |
| he doesn't write | ne pisati |
| he doesn't drive | on ne voziti |
| he doesn't love | ga ne voli |
| he doesn't give | on ne daje |
| he doesn't smile | on ne osmjeh |
| he doesn't take | On ne uzima |
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| we don't speak | mi ne govorimo |
| we don't write | ne pisati |
| we don't drive | ne vozimo |
| we don't love | ne volim |
| we don't give | mi ne daju |
| we don't smile | mi ne osmjeh |
| we don't take | mi ne uzeti |
Negation and negative expressions have a very important role in Bosnian, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with the Bosniac Negation, you might want to check the rest of our Bosnian lessons here: Learn Bosnian. Don't forget to bookmark this page.