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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

ne…plus

no longer

Je ne vais plus au supermarché le samedi.
I no longer go to the supermarket on Saturdays.

THE GRAMMAR
Note how this construction must be placed around the verb. The ne comes before the verb, and plus follows it. As sentences become more complicated, ne…plus functions exactly like ne…pas from yesterday’s example.

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Vocabulary Section: Negatives, Word of the Day