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

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 ‘do’: ‘don't live’, and ‘anymore’ at the end says something 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

The sentence in Urdu: “وہ اب یہاں نہیں رہتے۔”

In “وہ اب یہاں نہیں رہتے۔” the verb ‘رہتے’ (live) is the habitual form; in negative sentences Urdu often drops the final ‘ہیں’. ‘نہیں’ (not) comes before the verb, and ‘اب’ (now) with it gives ‘anymore’.

وہ

pronoun3rd person pronoun, here plural 'they'

اب

adverb'now'; with نہیں it means 'anymore'

یہاں

adverb'here'

نہیں

adverbnegation before the verb

رہتے

verbرہنا · aspect: imperfective (habitual) · gender: masculine · number: plural · in negatives Urdu often drops ہیں

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

Urdu needs only ‘نہیں’ for the negative; English needs ‘do’. ‘anymore’ comes from ‘اب … نہیں’, and Urdu ‘وہ’ is the same word for ‘he/she’ and ‘they’.

Example conversation