📖LearnModule 7 · Lesson 21 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, completedUnit 5 · Ya no, nunca, nada, nadie
Ya no, nunca, todavía no
Module 7 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, completed), lesson 21 of 30: Spanish negation is one word in one place, no before the verb. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
ya no fumo
I do not smoke any more
yah noh FOO-moh
él nunca viene
he never comes
ehl NOON-kah BYEH-neh
todavía no
not yet
toh-dah-BEE-ah NOH
fumar
to smoke
foo-MAR
la negación
the negative
lah neh-gah-SYOHN
siempre
always
SYEHM-preh
a menudo
often
ah meh-NOO-doh
rara vez
rarely
RRAH-rah behs
ustedes fuman demasiado
you (all) smoke too much
oos-TEH-dehs FOO-mahn deh-mah-SYAH-doh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Spanish negation is one word in one place — no before the verb — and a small family of words that sharpen it. Ya no is no longer: ya no fumo — I do not smoke any more. Nunca is never: él nunca viene. Todavía no is not yet: todavía no ha llegado.
Y también · And also
Nunca can sit before the verb on its own (nunca fumo) or after it with no in front (no fumo nunca) — both are correct, and the second is the everyday one. Ya on its own means already; ya no flips it to no longer.
Ojo · Watch out
ya no is no longer: ya no fumo. ya alone is already: ya comí. And nunca after the verb needs no in front: no fumo nunca — the double negative is correct Spanish, not a mistake.
fumar, presente — the table
yo fumo · tú fumas · él/ella/usted fuma · nosotros fumamos · ustedes fuman · ellos/ellas fuman
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with ya no fumo.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out fumar, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.