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Can 行くな change to 行くぬ with the same meaning "Don't go"?
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Can 行くな change to 行くぬ?
そんな言葉は聞いたことない、ね。 I have never heard that, and my first thought would be it's a
misprint or someone misheard. (apparently not a classical usage, so edited)
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From your comment:

> I see that な when combined with a dictionary form of a verb produces the
> negative imperative. And ぬ can be replaced with ない. So can な replaced with ぬ
> with the same meaning?

First of all, no. The な is a particle (助詞). ぬ and ない are auxiliaries (助動詞).

The negative imperative な is attached to the attributive form (連体形) of a verb:

> 行く+な → 行くな "Don't go!"

The negative auxiliaries ぬ and ない are attached to the imperfective form (未然形)
of a verb. The 未然形 of 行く is 行か, so:

> 行く+ない → 行 **か** ない / 行く+ぬ → 行 **か** ぬ "don't go"

In modern Japanese, the auxiliaries ない and ぬ don't have the imperative form
(命令形).

(In classical Japanese, the terminal form of ぬ is ず, and its imperative form
is ざれ.)
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