When to use it
Use it when someone comes looking for people who have moved away.
“They don't live here anymore.” — The sentence in English
"They don't live here anymore" needs the auxiliary "do" with "not" to make the negative, and "anymore" at the end says that it stopped.
- 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
“Sie wohnen hier nicht mehr.” — The sentence in German
"Sie wohnen hier nicht mehr" has no auxiliary: the verb "wohnen" stays in second place and "nicht mehr" means "not anymore". German uses "wohnen" for living in a place and "leben" for being alive.
- Sie
- pronoun"they"; capitalized only because it starts the sentence ("sie" = they, "Sie" = polite you)
- wohnen
- verbwohnen · tense: present · mood: indicative · person: third · number: plural · "live", about where someone lives
- hier
- adverb"here"
- nicht
- particlenegation: "not"
- mehr
- adverbwith "nicht": "anymore"
English × German: What changes from one language to the other
German makes the negative with "nicht" alone, without a helper like "do". "Nicht mehr" matches "not anymore". German has two verbs, "wohnen" and "leben", where English uses "live" for both.
Example conversation
— Wohnen die früheren Bewohner noch hier?
— Do the old residents still live here?
— Nein, sie wohnen hier nicht mehr.
— No, they don't live here anymore.