Used informally to mean 'nothing' or 'none', especially in concise statements or reports.
Übersetzungen
rienEmploi pronominal : aucune quantité, aucun élément. Number of casualties: nil.
Nombre de victimes : rien.
Number of casualties: nil.
Occasionally used attributively to mean 'amounting to zero'.
Übersetzungen
nulEmploi adjectival : valeur ou effet nul. The policy had a nil impact on unemployment.
La politique a eu un impact nul sur le chômage.
Amounting to nothing; having a value of zero. The policy had a nil impact on unemployment.
Used chiefly in British English to denote the number zero, especially in sports scores.
Übersetzungen
The score remained nil–nil at halftime.
Le score est resté à zéro-zéro à la mi-temps.
The score remained nil–nil at halftime.