How to say "to nothing" with a positive verb in Japanese?


Since なにも seems to only mean nothing with a negative verb if you want to use a
phrase for example "The dog barked at nothing" in Japanese how would you
express it? Is it 犬がなにもに吠えなかった because that seems wrong to me.




As luck would have it, there is a special word can be used to express barking
at nothing: "mudaboe" 無駄吠え。E.g. 犬は無駄吠えした。(It can also be used to express
excessive barking in general.)

