“They don't live here anymore.” in Filipino: “Hindi na sila nakatira dito.”

When to use it

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

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

In “They don't live here anymore.” the negative needs ‘do’, and ‘anymore’ goes at the end.

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

“Hindi na sila nakatira dito.” — The sentence in Filipino

In “Hindi na sila nakatira dito.” the sentence opens with ‘Hindi’ (not), and ‘na’ right after it means ‘anymore’. The pronoun ‘sila’ (they) moves between ‘Hindi na’ and the verb ‘nakatira’ (living), a typical Filipino word order.

Hindi

adverbnegation 'not', at the start

na

particle'already'; hindi na = 'no longer'

sila

pronounpronoun 'they'

nakatira

verbtira · form: naka- (state) · naka- + tira 'living, residing'

dito

adverb'here'

English × Filipino: What changes from one language to the other

Filipino puts the negation and ‘na’ at the start; English needs ‘do’ and puts ‘anymore’ last.

Example conversation