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Compare with the Russian:
I don’t think you are right. - Думаю, что вы не правы.
§ 28. Besides not there are other words that can serve as negators and make the sentence negative. They are:
no, nobody, nothing, nowhere, none (of) no one, and also neither (of), never and the conjunction neither... nor.
No sensible man would say that.
Nobody knows about it.
None of the applicants were German.
He has nothing to say.
He was nowhere to be found.
He never gets up early.
Neither of the statements is true.
I saw neither you nor your wife.
No is a determiner and is used with a noun when it has no other determiner (neither an article nor a
possessive or demonstrative pronoun).
No is the usual negator with a noun subject after there is/are, and with a noun object after the predicate verb
have.
There are no letters in the letter-box today.
I have no relatives in this city.
No can add emphasis to the sentence, implying the opposite of what is expressed by the word that follows.
He is no fool (= He is a clever man).
He showed no great skill (= He showed very little skill).
He had no small part in its success! (= He had a large part...)
This is no unimportant question (== It is really an important question).
She is no teacher (= She is a bad teacher).
In the same way never may add emphasis to the sentence and is often used in colloquial speech.
That will never do.
I should never have believed it.
Why did you sign those documents? - But I never did. (Я ничего не подписывал.)
Surely you never told him about it! (Ты не мог ему это сказать!)
If there is an article or a possessive or demonstrative pronoun before the noun, none of or neither of is used
with the same meaning as no (see the above examples).
Neither of the books is of any use to me.
I want none of these things.
None can be used without a noun as a noun substitute.
You have money, but I have none.
Bad advice is worse than none at all.
§ 29. Besides negators there are other words that make a sentence negative in meaning. They are:
seldom, rarely... (= not often);
hardly, scarcely, barely... (= almost... not, hardly ever, scarcely ever).