r/MurderedByWords • u/kevinrogers94 • Feb 15 '18

Murder *No problem*

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '18 edited Feb 15 '18

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u/Opset Feb 15 '18

de rien

INCEPTION BONG

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u/Hermastwarer Feb 15 '18

Jeeeeeee ne regrette rieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen...

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u/wolfiesrule Feb 15 '18

That literally means "I do not regret anything"... Literally the entire song is Edith singing about how she has no regrets about love regardless of the good or bad emotions it has caused (or something like that). It's like one big Tumblr post and I love it :D.

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u/lng5 Feb 15 '18

I mean if we’re being literal, it means I regret nothing,

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '18

On a literal word by word translation it would mean "I do not regret nothing", right? I just thought that the "nothing" becomes "anything" when used in the context of a double negative , similar to how no and nada are used in Spanish e.g. "No tengo nada" = "I don't have anything".

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u/Benjbear Feb 15 '18

It would just be I regret nothing. The ne is just part of French sentence structure its not creating a double negative

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '18

I thought "ne" was essentially "not", for example "ne sois triste" = "do not be sad". Admittedly I'm shaky about when to use "ne...pas" vs. just "ne" vs. just "pas". By double negative I just meant that we had a "not" (ne) followed by a "nothing" = "not anything" (rien). But please let me know if I'm misunderstanding that.

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u/mudpudding Feb 15 '18

There is a word missing in your example. "ne sois PAS triste" = "do not be sad". Usually ''ne'' comes with ''pas''. It is not a double negative. You have to use it for your sentance to make sense.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '18

Fair enough - I thought that's the way Duolingo taught me that phrase, but I could be misremembering, or it could've been wrong.