Personne and rien are negative pronouns; they may function as the subject or direct object of a sentence, or as the object of a preposition. When personne is an object, it is placed after the verb or the preposition it complements:
Personne and rien may be used at the beginning of a sentence, as pronoun subjects, followed by ne / n':
Some of the negations listed above can be combined, as shown in these examples: