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Originally Posted by ookami
Thanks. Is there some rule or something like that to distinguish when to use nothing and anything to say nada?
"I don't have nothing/anything." Are both options the same?
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Well, I would say that the most applicable rule is that we don't use "double negatives" like you do in Spanish.
"I don't have nothing." - means, literally, I don't have "nothingness", which actually means that I have
SOMETHING.
"I don't have anything." - that means, literally, that I don't have ANY THING.
Also, you could say "I have nothing."
In Spanish:
No tengo nada. ???