“They don't live here anymore.” in Bangla

When to use it

Use it when someone knocks asking for the people who lived in your flat before you.

The sentence in English (“They don't live here anymore.”)

In “They don't live here anymore.” the negative needs the helper ‘do’: ‘don't live’. ‘anymore’ goes at the end and says that something stopped being true.

They

pronounpersonal pronoun, third person plural

do

auxiliary verbdo · tense: present · auxiliary that makes the negative with "n't"

n't

particleshort form of "not"

live

verblive · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · after "do" the verb keeps its base form

here

adverbadverb of place

anymore

adverbadverb; used with a negative to say something stopped

The sentence in Bangla (“তারা এখন আর এখানে থাকে না।”)

In “তারা এখন আর এখানে থাকে না।” the negation ‘না’ comes after the verb ‘থাকে’ (live), as Bengali always does. ‘এখন আর … না’ (now … no more) gives the meaning ‘anymore’; here ‘আর’ does not mean ‘and’.

তারা

pronoun3rd person plural pronoun 'they'

এখন

adverbtime adverb 'now'

আর

adverbwith না it means 'anymore', not 'and'

এখানে

adverbplace adverb 'here'

থাকে

verbথাকা · tense: simple present · person: 3rd · থাকা 'to live, stay', habitual present

না

particlenegation না, placed after the verb

What changes from one language to the other (English × Bangla)

Bengali puts ‘না’ after the verb, English puts ‘don't’ before it. Bengali needs no helper verb, and ‘anymore’ comes from ‘আর … না’.

Example conversation