Negative Pronouns
There are three kinds of negative pronouns (отрицателни местоимения): personal (no(body)/none), for quality (no/none/no kind of/no type of) and for quantity (none/not any). The personal negative pronouns have Nominative and Genitive forms (the masculine form, when it is used on its own and refers to a person, has also Accusative and Dative forms - никого and никому respectively). Unlike in English, in Bulgarian the word for nothing is not a negative pronoun, but a neuter noun - нищо, and is closer in meaning to nothingness.
| Negative pronouns | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender/
Number |
Personal | For quality | For quantity | |
| Nominative | Genitive | |||
| Masculine | никой | ничий | никакъв | николко |
| Feminine | никоя | ничия | никаква | |
| Neuter | никое | ничие | никакво | |
| Plural | никои | ничии | никакви | |
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