Negatives

1. I never buy wine here.

Je ne achete jamais ici.

2. The clerk is not very kind.

Le employe n'est pas meme gentil.

3.I do not like to pay high prices.

Je ne aime bien payer pas des eleve prix.

4. The owner never says hello.

Le propretair ne dit jamais bonjour.

5. We do not waste our time here.

Nous ne perdons pas notre du temps ici.

Merci!

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on March 22, 2012 at 6:22pm

Remember to shorten ne to n' before a vowel-- you've not done this in all cases.

In (1), you haven't actually mentioned "wine". So with the previous observation, it would be:

Je n'achète jamais de vin ici.

Similarly, remember to shorten le. As I mentioned before, the word for "very" is très.

You've got (3) in a bit of a muddle. The verb that is being negated is "like". So first, concentrate on negating this verb: Je n'aime pas... Then, treat "pay high prices" as a separate unit. Remember that adjectives that are past participles (generally those ending in -é) go after the noun. So you end up with: Je n'aime pas payer des prix elevés.

(4) is OK -- just be careful of the spelling of propriétaire.

(5) is almost OK -- remember if you have notre, then you don't need du as well. You could also use it instead of notre, but in that case you would change it to de: Nous ne perdons pas de temps ici.