Не уходи, пожалуйста, мы ещё не договорились о плане.

Please don’t leave; we still haven’t agreed on the plan.

Breakdown of Не уходи, пожалуйста, мы ещё не договорились о плане.

• не: not
• мы: we
• пожалуйста: please
• о: about
• план: the plan
• ещё: still
• договориться: to agree
• уходить: to drain away

Questions & Answers about Не уходи, пожалуйста, мы ещё не договорились о плане.

Why is it Не уходи and not Не уходишь?

Because Не уходи is the imperative (a command/request): (you) don’t leave / don’t go.
Не уходишь is present tense indicative: you aren’t leaving (a statement), not a request.

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What does the не + imperative mean here? Is it the same as English don’t?

Yes. Не + imperative is the standard way to say don’t (do something) in Russian:

• Уходи! = Leave!
• Не уходи! = Don’t leave!

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Why is it уходи (imperfective) and not уйди (perfective)?

Both are possible, but they differ in nuance:

• Не уходи (imperfective) often sounds like Don’t leave / Don’t go away (stay here)—focused on the process/continuation of leaving or the idea of not departing now / not going away.
• Не уйди (perfective) is less common and can sound more like Don’t leave (at some point) / Don’t end up leaving—more focused on the single completed act of leaving.

In everyday polite requests, Не уходи is very natural.

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Why is there a comma after Не уходи and after пожалуйста?

Russian often uses commas to separate: 1) An imperative from a polite parenthetical word: Не уходи, пожалуйста, ...
2) Parenthetical insertions like пожалуйста can be set off by commas on both sides when it’s inserted in the middle.

You may also see (depending on style) just one comma: Не уходи, пожалуйста. Мы ещё... or Пожалуйста, не уходи.

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Where can пожалуйста go in this sentence, and does placement change the tone?

Common placements:

• Не уходи, пожалуйста, мы ещё... (neutral, natural)
• Пожалуйста, не уходи, мы ещё... (slightly more emphatic/polite at the start)
• Не уходи, мы ещё не договорились, пожалуйста. (less common; пожалуйста feels like an afterthought)

Meaning stays basically the same; placement mainly changes emphasis and rhythm.

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Why is it мы ещё не договорились (past tense) if the conversation is happening now?

Russian often uses the past perfective to express a result that hasn’t been achieved yet up to now:

• Мы не договорились = We haven’t reached an agreement (yet)

It’s similar to English present perfect in meaning, even though Russian uses past tense.

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What is договорились grammatically? Why does it end in -лись?

Договорились is:

• Past tense, plural: we
• Perfective verb: договориться (to come to an agreement)
• Reflexive marker: -ся / -сь becomes -лись in plural past

So мы договорились literally is we came-to-an-agreement (among ourselves).

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What does ещё mean here, and where does it usually go?

ещё here means yet / still: we still haven’t agreed.
It often appears right before what it modifies:

• мы ещё не договорились = we haven’t agreed yet / still haven’t agreed

You can move it for emphasis, but this position is the most typical.

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Why is it о плане and not про план or план with no preposition?

Because договориться normally uses the pattern договориться о + Prepositional = to agree on/about something:

• договориться о плане = agree on the plan

про is more like about in a conversational/storytelling sense and is less standard with договориться.
No-preposition (договориться план) is not grammatical.

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Why is плане in that form (ending -е)?

After о, Russian uses the prepositional case:

• план (nominative) → о плане (prepositional)

So о плане = about/on the plan (in the “agree on” sense).

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How would this change if I’m speaking politely to someone (like you formal or plural)?

You’d use не уходи (informal singular) vs не уходите (formal singular or plural):

• Informal: Не уходи, пожалуйста, мы ещё не договорились о плане.
• Formal / plural: Не уходите, пожалуйста, мы ещё не договорились о плане.

The rest of the sentence stays the same.