“They don't live here anymore.” in Tamil: “அவர்கள் இனி இங்கே வசிப்பதில்லை.”

When to use it

Use it when someone at the door asks for neighbours who have moved away.

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

In “They don't live here anymore.” the negative needs ‘do’ and ‘not’, and ‘anymore’ closes the sentence.

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

“அவர்கள் இனி இங்கே வசிப்பதில்லை.” — The sentence in Tamil

In “அவர்கள் இனி இங்கே வசிப்பதில்லை.” ‘இனி’ (from now on) and the negative ‘இல்லை’ fused into ‘வசிப்பதில்லை’ (do not live) together mean ‘no longer’.

அவர்கள்

pronoun'they'

இனி

adverb'from now on'; with a negative, 'any more'

இங்கே

adverb'here'

வசிப்பதில்லை

verbvaci · form: verbal noun + illai (negative) · vacippatu 'living' + illai 'not'

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

English negates before the verb with ‘don't’; Tamil fuses the negative onto the verb at the end.

Example conversation