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J'ajoute plus de sucre dans le café.

J'ajoute plus de sucre dans le café.
I add more sugar to the coffee.
From Lesson 49:Very vs. a lot (très, beaucoup)·French

Breakdown of J'ajoute plus de sucre dans le café.

le café
the coffee
dans
in, inside
ajouter
to add
le sucre
the sugar
plus
more

Questions & Answers about J'ajoute plus de sucre dans le café.

Does plus follow the same rules as beaucoup from this lesson?
Yes! Just like beaucoup de means 'a lot of', plus de means 'more'. After quantity words like beaucoup, plus, and moins (less), you always use a plain de. That's why it is plus de sucre and not plus du sucre.
Why is it j'ajoute instead of je ajoute?
The word je (I) drops its e and gets an apostrophe whenever the next word starts with a vowel or a silent 'h'. Since ajoute starts with an 'a', they combine into j'ajoute to make pronunciation smoother.
The English translation says 'to the coffee', so why use dans (in)?
Languages often use different prepositions for the same idea. In English, we add sugar to a drink, but French focuses on the physical action of putting it inside the cup. So, you add sugar in the coffee (dans le café).
Do I pronounce the 's' at the end of plus in this sentence?
No, the 's' is silent here. When plus is used with de to mean 'more of something', and the next word starts with a consonant, you don't say the 's'.

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