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Não
Não is the core negator: place it immediately in front of any verb and the sentence becomes negative. Não quero, não sei, não tenho. It never needs a helper verb, and as a one-word answer it also means no.
Examples in context
Eu não quero café.
I do not want coffee.
Ela não sabe a resposta.
She does not know the answer.
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