"Il casse de nouveau."

Translation: It breaks again.

[Peregrine405]

It might be best to think of 'de nouveau' as 'anew'.

[DuFarge]

So...to clarify this in my own mind, 'de nouveau' means 'again'? What about 'il casse encore'? Or does this sentence 'il casse de nouveau' more accurately mean it is newly broken?

[Azuremars]

They are synonyms.

[silvaj6462]

it is an idiom. we have that in port and span too: de novo, de nuevo. roughly ir means freshly broken.

[Sitesurf]

No, it does not mean freshly broken, "de nouveau" means "once again"

[laliga]

shouldn't "ils cassent de nouveau" also sound the same?

[Sitesurf]

Yes and it is the same for all verbs of the 1st group (all finishing by -er at the infinitive form), like manger, danser, parler, etc...

[sa_mills]

If 'it' was femine, would this be 'Elle casse de nouvelle'? If 'it' was plural, would it be 'Ils cassent de nouveaux'? Or is 'de nouveau' an adverb that doesn't change?

[Sitesurf]

"de nouveau" or "à nouveau" (both correct in this sentence) are adverbs in two words, which means that "nouveau" will remain invariable, as if you had used "encore".

[patrickmacauley]

It breaks once more

[moonbug1]

I put "he breaks up again" and it was marked correct.

[taniamaria357577]

Can anybody conjugate the verb "casse" ...pls? Thanks.

[Sitesurf]

http://french.about.com/library/verb/bl-verbconjugator.htm

All verbs ending in -er are conjugated like "manger" (except "aller")