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The connegative is a word form used in negative clauses. In the grammar of French, it refers to an obligatory negation marker such as pas in Je ne sais pas "I don't know". In the grammar of Finnish, it refers to a verb form consisting of an endingless stem (one of five infinitives of Finnish) used with a negative verb (used as an auxiliary verb) such as tiedä in en tiedä "I don't know".

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Negative verb

(FE). In some Uralic languages, speakers produce[clarification needed] connegatives to construct the syntactically acceptable word form used in negative

Finnish phonology

for wood chips') imperatives and connegative imperatives of the second-person singular, as well as the connegative form of the present indicative (these

Northern Sámi

(preterihtta or vássán áigi). In addition, each mood and tense has a so-called connegative form. This form is used in negative sentences, when combined with the

Proto-Finnic language

"fourth person", and indicated an unspecified person. The second was the "connegative" form, which was used together with the negative verb to form negated

Erzya language

is retained before the prolative case ending /ɡa/, vs. /jaŋɡa/, the connegative form of the verb /jaŋɡams/ "to break" /jonks/ "good", subject or object

Kildin Sámi

finite negative auxiliary and a finite main verb in a special form called connegative (negative form of the main verb). The negative auxiliary gets inflected

Finnish conjugation

conditional; annettaisiin = would be given ‑aisi/äisi: passive conditional connegative with negative verb ei; ei annettaisi = would not be given ‑aneen/äneen:

Southern Sámi

forms: the perfect participle, the progressive, the infinitive, and the connegative and imperative form. Meanwhile, verbs express the TAM categories present