Je ne t'aime plus – Bilingual Lyrics French/English

• By: Manu Chao
• Album: Clandestino

Lyrics & Translation

[French]

[English]

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Parfois j'aimerais mourir tellement j'ai voulu croire

Sometimes I wish I could die so much I wanted to believe

Parfois j'aimerais mourir pour ne plus rien avoir

Sometimes I wish I could die to have nothing left

Parfois j'aimerais mourir pour plus jamais te voir

Sometimes I wish I could die to never see you again

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Parfois j'aimerais mourir tellement y'a plus d'espoir

Sometimes I wish I could die so much there's no more hope

Parfois j'aimerais mourir pour plus jamais te revoir

Sometimes I wish I could die to never see you again

Parfois j'aimerais mourir pour ne plus rien savoir

Sometimes I wish I could die to know nothing anymore

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour (tous les jours)

I don't love you anymore, my love (every day)

Je ne t'aime plus mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Je ne t'aime plus mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Je ne t'aime plus mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus tous les jours

I don't love you anymore every day

Je ne t'aime plus mon amour

I don't love you anymore, my love

Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour (tous les jours)

I don't love you anymore, my love (every day)

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
aimer /ɛme/ A1	verb - to love
amour /a.muʁ/ A1	noun - love
mourir /mu.ʁiʁ/ B1	verb - to die
voir /vwaʁ/ A2	verb - to see
rien /ʁjɛ̃/ A2	noun - nothing
espoir /ɛs.pwaʁ/ B2	noun - hope
jamais /ʒa.mɛ/ A2	adverb - never
plus /ply/ A1	adverb - more
tous /tu/ A1	adjective - all

Key Grammar Structures

• Je ne t'aime plus, mon amour

  ➔ Negative sentence structure with reflexive verb. 'Ne...plus' expressing no longer or not anymore.

  ➔ The sentence means "I don't love you anymore, my love". The structure "ne...plus" is a common way to express ceasing an action or state. "Je "aime" "t"' is a reflexive structure.

• Parfois j'aimerais mourir tellement j'ai voulu croire

  ➔ Conditional mood expressing a wish (j'aimerais + infinitive). Use of 'tellement' to emphasize the degree to which something is true.

  ➔ The sentence translates to "Sometimes I wish I could die so much that I wanted to believe." "J'aimerais" is the conditional tense of "aimer", and "tellement" emphasizes the intensity of wanting to believe.

• Parfois j'aimerais mourir pour plus jamais te voir

  ➔ The phrase uses 'pour plus jamais' followed by an infinitive, indicating 'in order to never' followed by 'te voir' indicating 'to see you'. The conditional (j'aimerais) expresses the wish

  ➔ The sentence translates to "Sometimes I wish I could die in order to never see you again". 'Pour plus jamais' emphasizes the strong desire to avoid seeing the person in the future.