Example sentences for: rien

How can you use “rien” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some examples of peculiar usage: we pay at the cash cashier's station in the wicket grated window; we lose waste time ; we open turn on and close turn off the light ; and we say il y a rien là there's nothing to it, literally, there's nothing there.

  • At the end of the day, Louis — apparently oblivious to events in Paris — wrote in his diary, “Rien” (“Nothing”).

  • 318)--"Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien":

  • 318: "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"

  • The idomatic English was hardly anything . Germans, however, were not to know this, and brashly translated their fast nichts . Granted, in this particular case the French and Italians might have had a finger in the pie, with their presque rien and quasi niente ; but I feel pretty sure that the Germans were the main offenders.


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