nenhum

From Old Galician-Portuguese nin (h)ũu, earlier nen (h)ũu, from Late Latin nec ūnus (“not even one”). Displaced the collateral form ningũu. Compare Galician ningún, Spanish ninguno.

• (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈnɲũ]

• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: ne‧nhum

nenhum (feminine nenhuma, masculine plural nenhuns, feminine plural nenhumas)

1. no, none

   Nenhuma pessoa foi vista por aqui.

   No person was seen around here.

• The plural forms nenhuns and nenhumas are now uncommon and are only used with pluralia tantum, nouns that change meaning in the plural, and multiple things considered together (e.g. nenhuns dois lugares ("no two places")).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:nenhum.