Usage examples of "ne" in French with translation to English

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Je ne vous comprends pas. I do not understand you.
Je ne suis pas né d'hier. I wasn't born yesterday.
Ne casse pas la branche. Don't break off the branch.
Rien ne saurait étonner un Américain. On a souvent répété que le mot "impossible" n’était pas français; on s’est évidemment trompé de dictionnaire. En Amérique, tout est facile, tout est simple, et quant aux difficultés mécaniques, elles sont mortes avant d’être nées. Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.
Elle ne l'approuverait pas. She would not approve.
J'aimerais que tu ne sois jamais née. I wish you'd never been born.
Ne brise pas un miroir. Don't break a mirror.
Je ne te comprends pas. I do not understand you.
Nous ne sommes pas nés pour nous-mêmes. We are not born for ourselves.
Il ne rompt jamais ses promesses. He never breaks his promises.
Je ne le vendrai pas. I'm not going to sell it.
J'aimerais que tu ne sois jamais né. I wish you'd never been born.
Personne ne peut battre son record. Nobody can break his record.
Ça ne se produit pas. This is not happening.
J'aimerais que vous ne soyez jamais né. I wish you'd never been born.
Ne me brise pas le cœur ! Don't break my heart.
Il ne doit pas vivre. He must not live.
On ne naît pas femme : on le devient. One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
Ne me brisez pas le cœur ! Don't break my heart.
Ne sont-ils pas Anglais ? Are they not Englishmen?
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