When to use it
Use it when someone offers you a dish and you want to say you have never tried that kind of food.
The sentence in English — “I've never eaten Japanese food.”
In “I've never eaten Japanese food.” ‘I've’ is ‘I have’ and ‘eaten’ is the past participle: a present perfect about life experience. ‘never’ is already negative, so no ‘not’ is added.
- I
- pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter
- 've
- auxiliary verbhave · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · short form of "have"; with "eaten" it talks about life experience up to now
- never
- adverbadverb of frequency
- eaten
- verbeat · form: past participle · irregular verb: eat, ate, eaten
- Japanese
- adjectiveadjective of nationality, always capitalised in English
- food
- nounnoun
The sentence in Bangla — “আমি কখনো জাপানি খাবার খাইনি।”
In “আমি কখনো জাপানি খাবার খাইনি।” the verb ‘খাইনি’ is one word: ‘খাই’ (eat) plus the negative ending ‘-নি’. Bengali forms the negative of past and perfect actions with ‘-নি’, not with ‘না’. ‘কখনো’ (ever) with it means ‘never’.
- আমি
- pronounpronoun 'I'
- কখনো
- adverbwith a negative verb it means 'never'
- জাপানি
- adjectiveadjective 'Japanese'
- খাবার
- nounnoun 'food'
- খাইনি
- verbখাওয়া · tense: present perfect, negative · person: 1st · খাই + নি: the ending -নি makes the past negative, 'have not eaten'
English × Bangla — What changes from one language to the other
English uses one word, ‘never’; Bengali uses ‘কখনো’ plus the ending ‘-নি’. English puts the negation before the verb, Bengali attaches it to the end of the verb.
Example conversation
— আমি কখনো জাপানি খাবার খাইনি।
— I've never eaten Japanese food.
— তাহলে আজ রাতে সুশি খেয়ে দেখুন!
— Then you should try sushi tonight!