What is the difference between the negative partitive and "ne...plus de"?
Je n'ai pas de l'encre. I don't have any ink.
Je n'ai plus d'encre. I don't have any ink left.

It seems that these two are interchangeable, except maybe "ne...plus de" infers that you had some at some point earlier in time. Is that correct?

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What is the difference between the negative partitive and "ne...plus de"?
Je n'ai pas de l'encre. I don't have any ink.
Je n'ai plus d'encre. I don't have any ink left.

It seems that these two are interchangeable, except maybe "ne...plus de" infers that you had some at some point earlier in time. Is that correct?

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Hi,
You are right, but it's not « Je n'ai pas de l'encre. », it's « Je n'ai pas d'encre. »

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Je n'ai plus d'encre means you had any in the past.

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