Is there a form for “I have never heard of”?

Question

Some examples of what I'm trying to convey:

• I have never heard that song before.

• I have never heard of Miyazawa Kenji

• I have never heard of that before?

• I've never heard of that store?

What verb should be used? Is there a common form I can adopt? Is there an equivalent phrase in Japanese?

Answer 1

It can be translated as 聞いたことがない

聞いたことのない歌です。
宮崎賢治のことを聞いたことがありません。

Answer 2

For "I have never___" you take the verb, put it in the past tense, then add ことがない　or ことがありません.

The direct translation is something like "I don't have X experience" or "I've never done X thing"

So, for 聞く, we go:

聞く　--> 聞いた --> 聞いたこと --> 聞いたことがありません

or to answer your initial question:

その歌{うた}を聞いたことがありません。

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For "I've never heard of that store" you can't really use this expression, you'd have to say something more like:

その店ぜんぜん知らない。

"I don't know anything about that store"