"Avec cette calculatrice, plus besoin de compter !"

Translation: With this calculator, no need to count anymore!

[5EarlofIckenham]

I don't think I've seen this construction before. No "ne" is needed here? Does "plus besoin de" always mean "no need to" or "no need for" ?

[jwl99]

In colloquial speaking the ne is sometimes left out.

[Poef9]

Right. But presumably "ne" could still be inserted somewhere, but where? "Avec cette calculatrice, ne plus besoin de compter !"? Or "Avec cette calculatrice, on n'a plus besoin de compter !"?

[KvitfjellMann]

With this calculator, THERE IS no need to count anymore!
English sentences, please!?

[Lucien660983]

Are sentences without a verb always wrong in English?

[Pennie523]

Proper English has a subject and verb in everything sentence. You could hear this in English, but it would be considered more like slang

[Sally810296]

People don't always speak in complete sentences!

[Poef9]

I guess the French is just as colloquial as the English without "there is". No need to complain, I would say.

[7jeny3]

This is totally normal informal spoken English, which is among the things Duo is teaching.

[Will256574]

Sounds like; more need to count.

[JoeTama]

Makes no sense.

[Poef9]

I reckon it is a very interesting idiom.

[tigerstef]

Plus by itself is a negation? I assumed plus besoin de meant more of is needed.

[kshamashas]

I agree with Will256574! I too thought the same thing!

[jmottern]

If "plus" by itself means "no more", how would you say "more" in this context?

[david29452]

This is a very good and interesting example - and there are equivalents in spoken english. For example "no need to run/hurry" is a common expression

[Martyn413385]

Calculators don't count anything. They are used to perform calculations electronically so there is no need for hand calculation anymore!