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[autumn willow]

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[eternal fjord]

The negating "pas" treats it sort of like a quantity of something. In the same way you say "J'ai beaucoup de pommes" for "I have a lot of apples," you would say "Je n'ai pas de pommes" for "I don't have any apples."

[strange belfry]

Desolee. I would need more clarification on this. Does this mean that I no longer use "des" if there is already a word signifying quantity? Like beaucoup?

[valid spoke]

with negation, you use de instead of des

that's the rule

the two rules are, as far as i can tell, unrelated

you say beaucoup d'amis and not beaucoup de des amis to avoid the repetition of de and des

unrelated to the negative

[strange belfry]

Understood. Merci beacoup.

[valid spoke]

beaucoup des amis is also possible but it means "a lot of the friends" not "a lot of friends"