thenotmightylordofcatsalexandra

[velvet steeple]

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[left salmon]

Je ne mange jamais

[latent sail]

The sentence isn't grammatically correct, did you use AI to check that?

[cobalt crest]

This kinda sounds like English's do-support wherein you insert the verb 'to do' in order to negate. It's not grammatical, no.
If I have a sentence like 'I eat', negated it'll be 'I do not eat' because negation does not work for plain verbs, only modals (can, may, should, would, will, to do in some cases) and auxiliaries (to be and to have). In French, negation works with any verb so « Je mange » would be negated as « Je ne mange pas ». The literal word-for-word translation into English would be 'I eat not'.

[dim fractal]

Thanks! It was an approximation I made, I don't know of or have a perfect method for checking grammar and I'd rather not use AI.

[latent sail]

good, I was reading between the lines because you said it "seemed" correct so I figured you had been mislead by an AI

[dim fractal]

Nah just me being dumb lol

[shell tulip]

To give you a feeling of how the first one comes off, it's sort of like "I makes never eats"

[latent sail]

Yeah it's totally incomprehensible

or "I make/say: don't ever eat"

also it should be "je fais" and not "je fait"

if you were trying to say "i make/do"

faire really doesn't seem to translate very smoothly into English in a lot of cases

ig because both "do" and "faire" are both so commonly used that they easily become idiomatic or something

[dim fractal]

mhm that was the idea