nichts

Etymology
From, a reenforcing construction with. See. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) nothing

Usage notes

 * Used instead of to negate a sentence involving a non-specific noun.
 * Frequently, especially in spoken or informal language, accompanied by.
 * Frequently, especially in spoken or informal language, accompanied by.

Declension
Invariable. A following adjective is capitalized and declined as a neuter singular in the strong pattern. Thus nichts Neues (“nothing new”) in the nominative and accusative cases; nichts Neuem in the dative case.

A genitive form does not exist. It is paraphrased by means of the preposition. After the prepositions, , , and , the dative case is used instead: wegen nichts Wichtigem – “because of nothing important” (i.e. because of something unimportant).