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Conlang Year, Day 136 prompt

Goal: Explore strategies for negating nouns

Note: Think about how your language might say phrases like “not the rabbit.”

Tip: This strategy may be the same as other negation in your language.

Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try


You previously came up with ways to say phrases like “no rabbits,” but today’s prompt focuses on a different kind of negation: How might your language say something like “The bear ate the berries—not the rabbit”? You don’t necessarily need to create a new form to achieve this negation—you might use the same negator you use for verbs or the same negative indefinite you created for nouns. Use today to explore options for noun negation.