Look at these sentences:
To express unless + verb (= unless you do it) in French is a bit more complicated:
à moins que + subject + ne explétif + the verb in Subjonctif présent or Subjonctif passé
Note that in speech, the ne explétif can be dropped.
Je l'aiderai à moins que vous ne le fassiez.
See Understanding the 'ne' explétif
as well as other similar expressions using subordinating conjunctions:
Sans que (+ ne explétif) + Le Subjonctif = Without doing
Avant que + ne explétif + Le Subjonctif = Before I do
De peur que + ne explétif + Le Subjonctif = For fear that
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