No. 3,068 in French
nuls
"Poor," "useless," or "without talent."
In a sentence
Ces jeux sont vraiment nuls.
These games are really bad.
In this sentence, "nuls" is used as an adjective to describe "jeux" (games) as being bad or of poor quality.
Ils sont nuls en mathématiques.
They are bad at mathematics.
Here, "nuls" is used to describe someone’s lack of skill or proficiency in mathematics.
Les efforts faits pour résoudre ce problème étaient nuls.
The efforts made to solve this problem were useless.
In this case, "nuls" implies that the efforts were ineffective or useless.
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