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Никто
Никто means "nobody" and pairs with не before the verb: никто не пришёл, "nobody came". Russian stacks negatives rather than cancelling them, so the more negative words a sentence has, the more emphatic it is.
Examples in context
Никто не пришёл.
Nobody came.
Никто не знает ответ.
Nobody knows the answer.
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