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Vous ne vous couchez plus tard.

Vous ne vous couchez plus tard.
You do not go to bed late anymore.
From Lesson 110:Negative adverbs (ne... plus)·French

Questions & Answers about Vous ne vous couchez plus tard.

Why is the second vous inside the ne... plus sandwich?
In French, the reflexive pronoun (vous) is tightly glued to the verb (couchez). When you make a sentence negative, the ne and plus go around this entire glued-together chunk. That is why it is ne vous couchez plus and not vous vous ne couchez plus.
Why are there two vous words in this sentence?
The first vous is the subject ('you'). The second vous is the reflexive pronoun ('yourself'), which belongs to the verb se coucher (to go to bed). You need both to say 'you put yourself to bed'.
Doesn't plus usually mean 'more'? Why does it mean 'anymore' here?
When plus is paired with ne, the combination ne... plus becomes a negative adverb meaning 'no longer' or 'not anymore'. It wraps around the verb exactly like ne... pas, but you replace pas with plus.
Do I pronounce the 's' at the end of plus in this sentence?
No, the 's' in plus is completely silent when it is used in a negative phrase like ne... plus. You only hear it in a negative sentence if the very next word starts with a vowel (a liaison), but here tard starts with a consonant.

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