phonso (corrigez-moi pls 🥲)

[ivory osprey]

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[keen hearth]

Nope. The negative statement here is "rien n'est impossible". When you want to speak generally about a negative like this, the negative adverb becomes the subject and ne gets placed before the verb

Tout est impossible -> everything is impossible
Rien n'est impossible -> nothing is impossible

You can see this with other negations too:

Personne n'est là
Aucun n'a été mangé

[pure flint]

So the ne doesn’t always have to be before the rien?

[keen hearth]

No, the ne goes before the verb when conjugated, and before the negative adverb when it's an infinitive

[green meadow]

you’re just flipping around ne…rien, ne…personne etc. so that rien and personne are the subject and the ne stays

[pure flint]

idek what subject is but i think i get it

[green meadow]

the subject is the thing doing the verb