A little help with this sentence please: 百円しかない。

Toritoribe said:

All of ない in Japanese are not ALWAYS equivalent to "not" in English.
e.g.
ほとんどお金を持っていない。
I have little money.

少しだけお金を持っている/少しはお金を持っている。
I have a little money.


I don't even have 100 yen.
百円さえ（持ってい）ない。

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AmayaSakurai said:

Hello everyone!
I have a question about this sentence.
百円しかない。
It says that the translation should be: I only have 100 yen.
My question:
Because of the ない (there isn't/doesn't exist), why wouldn't this sentence mean "I don't EVEN have 100 yen." ??? And how would you say that then?

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Mikawa Ossan said:

I don't know how good your English is, but here is a pretty literal translation of your sentence:
There is naught but 100 yen.

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