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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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