Aucune n’arrivee

Question

There seemed to be two acceptable answers. No one arrived and Nothing arrived. I picked the 2nd option thinking you could be talking about an object or things possibly you were waiting to receive in the mail. Couldn’t this sentence be translated to nothing arrived especially if you were expecting a letter which is a feminine and aucune could be used as a pronoun for letter ?

Maarten Kamp · Accepted Answer

Michele, 
As in English, there is a difference in French between ‘ nothing arrived ‘ and ‘ none ( of something ) arrived ‘. 
TIP 
( from the lesson ) “ aucun/e means none, rien means nothing! “. 
Correct answers could have been ‘ no one ‘ or ‘ none ‘,  but not ‘ nothing ‘.