Crossword: Negation in Spanish

In Spanish, negation is wonderfully simple! To make a sentence negative, you usually just place no before the verb. But there are also other key negative words to know, like nunca, nada and nadie. Solve this crossword to practise the essential vocabulary and structures used to express negation in Spanish.

Horizontalement

1. 1. New
2. 4. To prohibit, to forbid
3. 6. Opposite, opposed
4. 7. To care for
5. 9. Girlfriend or bride
6. 10. To abstain, to refrain
7. 11. Still, yet (in negative context)
8. 12. Never
9. 14. To prevent, to impede
10. 16. Man
11. 17. None, no one
12. 18. Denied, negated
13. 19. Before

Verticalement

1. 2. Old
2. 3. Now
3. 3. Now
4. 3. Now
5. 5. To reject, to refuse
6. 8. Negation, denial
7. 9. Denying, negating
8. 13. Barely, hardly, scarcely
9. 15. To think