Is this negative sentence correct?
Je ne connais personne qui sache lire le latin.
Should I add "pas" after "connais"?
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Je ne connais personne qui sache lire le latin.
Should I add "pas" after "connais"?
Pas personne is not grammatical.
Should you want to add pas after connais, you would need to add de or une too:
Je ne connais pas de personne qui sache lire le latin.
Je ne connais pas une personne qui sache lire le latin.
This form works too:
Je ne connais aucune personne qui sache lire le latin.
In these three sentences, personne is no more a pronoun but a substantive, so they are not cases of double negation.
You can however say:
Je ne connais pas quelqu'un qui sache lire le latin.