並不/並沒 — Sets 並 before a negation to deny an assumption the listener is expected to hold: contrary to what you'd think, not so.

grammar → 並不/並沒

TSUMUGU · TBCL 4 (est.) · 語法

並不/並沒 grammar point · tier 1 · emphatic negation 並不/並沒 (contrary to what you'd assume, not)

· bìng

Sets 並 before a negation to deny an assumption the listener is expected to hold: contrary to what you'd think, not so.

Hook inherited from 不.

Sets 並 before a negation to deny an assumption the listener is expected to hold

框 · Frame

[presumed claim] ，[subj] 並 + 不/沒 + [verb / adj]

觸 · Trigger

Your listener expects a difference, a difficulty, or an effect, and you want to flatly deny it.

序 · The move

1locate the assumption being deniedwould the listener expect the opposite?

2並 directly before the negatoris there a real presumption for 並 to push against?

3不 for will/quality/state, 沒 for not-happened / not-havedid the event fail to occur (沒) or is it simply not so (不)?

例 · Examples

1雖然although他們的宗教religion不同differ，但yet並不does not at all (against expectation)影響affect他們的合作關係cooperative relationship。

Their religions differ, yet that in no way affects how well they work together.

界 · Boundary

不/沒

Plain 不/沒 just denies. 並 adds a presumption it is denying: it answers an assumption, not a blank question.

雖然…但是… concedes a fact then turns; 並不/並沒 sits inside the turn, denying the effect the fact would seem to carry.

no presumption to deny: 天氣並好 → 天氣很好 (use 並 only against an expected claim)

wrong negator for a non-event: 他並不來 → 他並沒來 (the coming did not happen)

並 detached from the negator: 並他不知道 → 他並不知道

English carries the contrast in stress or 'actually'; learners drop 並 and the flat denial loses its push-back against the assumption.