jamais

Inherited from Old French ja mais (“any more”, only in reference to the future), the two components deriving from Latin iam and magis. Compare Spanish jamás, Italian giammai, Occitan jamai and Portuguese jamais.

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.mɛ/

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• (Paris) IPA^(key): /ʒa.me/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [ʒɑ̃me], [hɑ̃mɛ̃], [ʒɔ̃mɛ̃]

jamais

1. (ne ... jamais) never

   Je ne l’ai jamais vue. ― I’ve never seen her.

2. ever

   Es-tu jamais allé en France ? ― Have you ever been to France?

• Saint Dominican Creole French:
  • Haitian Creole: janmen

• “jamais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French ja mais.

jamais

1. ever

From Old Galician-Portuguese jamais, from Old Occitan ja mais, from Latin iam magis. Cognate with Galician xamais, Spanish jamás, Occitan jamai, French jamais and Italian giammai.

• Hyphenation: ja‧mais

jamais (not comparable)

1. never

   Synonym: nunca

   Jamais estive na Inglaterra. ― I’ve never been to England.