Spanish word

tampoco

Pronunciation

IPA/tamˈpoko/

Meaning

  • adverbme neither

Example

A mí tampoco me gusta esa película.

I don't like that movie either.

Illustration for tampoco (me neither)

More examples

No tengo hambre y tampoco quiero comer.

I'm not hungry and I don't want to eat either.

Core concept

Agreement with a prior negative statement.

Common phrases

  • a mí tampoco

    me neither

  • tampoco me gusta

    don't like it either

Similar words

también: Expresses agreement or addition in an affirmative sentence to mean "also".
ni siquiera: Intensifies a negative to convey "not even".

Definition in Spanish

Indica coincidencia en una valoración negativa expresada antes, señalando que la situación también es negativa para el hablante.

Word origin

It was originally a contraction of tan poco ('so little'), whose elements fused into the single adverb tampoco and whose meaning shifted to 'not either', with poco tracing back to Latin paucus.

Usage tips

  • English speakers commonly substitute también by mistake because of surface similarity, so note that tampoco only responds to an earlier negative clause and is not interchangeable with también.

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