/ply/
Translation
more; no more (in negation ne...plus)
Word origin
From Latin plus ('more'), the comparative of multus ('much'). The English 'plus' and 'plural' share this root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- plus
- English cognates
- plus, plural
Examples
c' ?
Do you want more coffee or are you fine?
' Lyon, j' demenage Nice.
I no longer live in Lyon, I've moved to Nice.
, .
The more the merrier.
.
This car costs more than mine.
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I haven't eaten meat for about three years now.
Plus a deux prononciations et deux sens principaux. En comparatif (plus grand), l'adverbe d'intensite (plus souvent) et l'addition, le s final est prononce devant une voyelle (/plyz avɑ̃/) et muet devant une consonne (/ply viːt/). Dans la negation ne...plus (je n'en veux plus), le s est toujours muet (/ply/).
La confusion phonetique entre plus positif et plus negatif piege les apprenants a l'ecoute. En contexte, le sens est toujours clair : la presence ou l'absence de ne (meme sous-entendu a l'oral) et la logique de la phrase guidaient l'interpretation. La locution de plus en plus (more and more) merite d'etre apprise comme bloc.
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Grammar articles
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French Adjective Position: Default, BAGS, and the Meaning Shifts
French Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
Comparing French Adverbs: plus vite, le mieux, and the Irregulars
French Adverbs of Manner: Forming -ment Adverbs
French Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
French Comparatives: plus, moins, aussi and the Three Irregulars
French Conditionnel: Polite Requests, Hypothetical 'Would', and the Same Irregular Stems as the Future
Conjugating French -er Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
French Demonstrative Pronouns: celui, celle, ceux, celles
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
French Imperative: tu, nous, vous Commands and the Three Irregulars
French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
French quel and lequel: Which and Which One
French Negation Beyond pas: ne... que, ni... ni, aucun
French Negation: ne... pas, jamais, rien, personne and the Colloquial ne-Drop
French Noun Plurals: Add -s, Say Nothing - the Article Does the Work
The French Present Participle and Gerund (le participe présent et le gérondif)
Passé Composé vs Imparfait: How to Choose Between the Two French Past Tenses
French Passé Composé: avoir or être + Past Participle and the MRS VANDERTRAMP Set
The French Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait): The Past Before the Past
French Possessive Pronouns: le mien, le tien, le sien, le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur
French Possessives: mon, ma, mes and the mon-Before-Vowel Trap
French Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
French Question Words: qui, que, quand, où, comment, pourquoi and the Three Ways to Ask
French Reflexive Verbs: se laver, se lever, s'appeler and the Singular Pronouns
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
French Stressed Pronouns: moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles
The French Present Subjunctive: How to Form It
French Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
Venir de + Infinitive: the French Recent Past (to have just done something)
The French Passive Voice (la voix passive)
French Word Order: SVO, the Object Pronoun Inversion, and Six Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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