Negative Pronouns

❌ Negative pronouns are formed by prefixing ber or hiç (not a, no) to interrogative pronouns: 

berkem (də) / hiçkem – nobody, no one

bernərsə (də) / hiçnərsə – nothing

berni (də) / hiçni – nothing

berqayçan (da) / hiçqayçan – never

etc.

❌ Both categories of negative pronouns are synonymous and both require the predicate of the sentence to stand in the negative. Negative pronouns formed with ber are often used with the intensive particle da / də.

Negative pronouns may be formed only from interrogative pronouns the meaning of which permits this.

Min sinnən barı şunı ğına ütenəm: ... Berkemgə bernərsə söyləmə. (Kərim Əmiri, “Tañ waqıtı”)

I beg of you only this: ... Do not tell anybody anything.

Yılarlıq hiçnərsə bulğanı yuq. (Şərif Kamal, “Ut”) 

Nothing has happened to cry about.

❌ Hiç, ber (or a united hiçber) and berəw dә may function independently as negative pronouns:

Min bolay dip hiç uylamağan idem, Rəüf iptəş... (Şərif Kamal, “Ut”) 

I never thought that it was like this, friend Rəüf…

Tağın kiçkə xətle ber də söyləşmiçə eşlider idek. (Şərif Kamal, “Quray tawışı”) 

Again we worked until evening without speaking at all. 

Xatı nərsə turında buldı anıñ? Berəw də belməde. (Fatix Xösni, “Cəy başı”) 

What was her letter about? No one knew.