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title: 〜ず and 〜ぬ
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The suffixes 〜ず and 〜ぬ are both classical versions of the suffix 〜ない. In
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fact, they are two conjugations of the same word, 〜ぬ being the
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[連体形]{れんたいけい} form of 〜ず in Classical Japanese. However, there is
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also another 連体形 form of 〜ず which happens to be 〜ざる.
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〜ない, 〜ざる and 〜ぬ can all be used interchangeably:
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- 知ら**ない**人
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- 知ら**ざる**人
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- 知ら**ぬ**人
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According to this [post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/14518)
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the 〜ざる form was more commonly used in [漢文]{かんぶん} while the 〜ぬ form
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was more commonly used in [和文]{わぶん}.
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