Wat betekent “niet meer” in het Nederlands?

Niet meer is nog niet's mirror image. Where nog niet says "not yet, but expected," niet meer says "no longer, was true once." The phrase signals an ended state: the action or property was the case in the past and has now stopped. Hij werkt hier niet meer (he doesn't work here anymore), ik rook niet meer (I don't smoke anymore), die winkel bestaat niet meer (that shop is gone).

The phrase is essential for any past-tense biographical or status update in Dutch. Job changes, ended relationships, closed businesses, broken habits, lost possessions — all of them get niet meer in their description. Dutch life-story conversations rely heavily on it.

A pragmatic note: niet meer can carry emotional weight depending on context. Hij is er niet meer (he is no longer here) is a Dutch euphemism for someone having died. The neutral and the euphemistic uses share grammar but read differently in tone — Dutch listeners pick the right one from context.