As a pronoun Rien is often accompanied by "ne" or "n'" (before a vowel), and sometimes by another negative item (jamais ...)
Je n'ai rien - "I've got nothing" (Rien adjective is after the ne)
Rien ne VA - "nothing's going right" (Rien as a noun is before the "ne")
A-t-il jamais rien fait pour nous ? Has he ever done anything for us ? (no "ne in interrogative sent.)
Il n'a jamais rien fait pour nous - He has never done something for us
Some locutions in which, most often, rien is a noun
-"De rien" alone can mean "you're welcome" or "not at all" when somenone thanks you
- Un rien - (a very little quantity)
- rien d'autre - nothing else
- rien du tout - nothing at all
- n'avoir rien de : Il n'a rien d'un champion. He's no champion.
- rien que - just, only
- rien que pour lui faire plaisir - just to please him
- rien que la vérité - nothing but the truth
- rien que cela - that alone
- Rien que la voiture coûte un million - The car alone costs a million.
- rien à faire! it's no good!, it's no use! It's not worth ii
- il ne lui ressemble en rien - he's nothing like him
- Rien ne VA plus ! - I don't know the translation in English but it is the locution used in casinos when betting time is over)
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nothing's wrong would be translated 'rien n'est faux, rien n'est incorrect'. That gives a double negative and French speakers just say usually 'rien' (when told there's something wrong here...), or use the opposite phrase 'tout VA bien' (all is good).
The French expression is: "Ne rien entendre, ne rien voir, ne rien dire".
"It is nothing" translates to "Ce n'est rien" in French.
rien de neuf
"Welcome" in French is "Bienvenue."
Rien means 'nothing' or the negative form of 'anything' depending on the context. For example, -"Qu'as-tu fait" (What did you do?) -"Rien." (Nothing.) or -"Je n'ai rien fait." (I didn't do anything.) Note that rien is used in the place of 'pas' and is one of the many forms of the negative in French (e.g. ne...rien, ne...aucun, ne...personne).
nothing's wrong would be translated 'rien n'est faux, rien n'est incorrect'. That gives a double negative and French speakers just say usually 'rien' (when told there's something wrong here...), or use the opposite phrase 'tout VA bien' (all is good).
The French expression is: "Ne rien entendre, ne rien voir, ne rien dire".
ne faites rien
"It is nothing" translates to "Ce n'est rien" in French.
nothing = rien nothing at all = rien du tout
c'est rien /or / ce n'est rien means that's nothing in French.
rien
"Ne rien" in French means "nothing" or "not anything." It is often used in negations to indicate the absence of something.
rien de neuf
zéro (rien)
du rien