A negative sentence is a sentence that states that something is false. In English, we create negative sentences by adding the word 'not' after the auxiliary, or helping, verb. Here are the negative auxiliary verbs in Tamil that uses "don't" auxiliary in the conversation. In Tamil "illai" means "no" or "don't". Practice these examples to learn how to use them in the sentence flow.
| English sentences | Tamil sentences |
| I have no money | enakku panam illai |
| he did not come | avan varavillai |
| will you come or not? | varukiyaya illaiya |
| no matter what | innatenyillai |
| never | orukalumillai |
| nothing | onyumillai |
| not at all | illave yillai |
| I don’t want | yenakku vaenaam, viruppam illai |
| I don't understand | enakku puriyala |
| I don't know | Enakku theriyaathu |
| I have no idea | Enakku theriyala |
| Don't worry | kavalai padaathey |
| No problem | Onnum prachanai illai |
| I don’t want to touch | yenakku thoduvatharkku virumppam illai |
| I don’t want to turn | yenakku thirumbuvatharkku viruppam illai |
| I don’t want to write | yenakku yeluthuvatharkku viruppam illai |
| Don’t want to show | yenakku kaattuvatharkku virumbavillai |
| He doesn’t want to speak | avan paesuvatharkku virumbavillai |
| He doesn’t want to stand | avan nirppatharkku virumbavillai |
| I don’t want to touch | yenakku thoduvtharkku viruppam illai |
| He doesn’t like over eating | avan athiagm sappiduvathai virumbavillai |
| He doesn’t like pretending | avan nadippathai virumba villai |
| She does’t like tailoring | aval thaiyalai virumbavillai |
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