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jamais

/ʒa.mɛ/

adverb/ʒa.mɛ/

never; ever

Je ne l’ai jamais vue.I’ve never seen her.

Inherited from Old French ja mais (“any more”, only in reference to the future), the two components deriving from Latin iam and magis. Compare Spanish jamás, Italian giammai, Occitan jamai and Portuguese jamais.