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Cette voiture est à John.Translation
This is John's car.Analysis
| cette |
| 1. pron. feminine singular of ce |
| voiture |
| 1. n. car (motorized vehicle) |
| 2. n. (historical) car (wheeled vehicle usually pulled by a horse) |
| 3. n. car (wagon) |
| voiturer |
| 1. v. (transitive, archaic) to transport |
| 2. v. to drive, chauffeur (transport by vehicle) |
| est |
| 1. adj. east |
| 2. n-m. east |
| 3. v. third-person singular present indicative of être |
| être |
| 1. v. to be |
| 2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of (including all reflexive verbs) |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice) |
| 4. n. being, creature |
| à |
| 1. Letter. A with grave accent, a letter used in French mostly to distinguish some homographs and in transliteration. |
| 2. prep. to (destination) |
| 3. prep. to (until) |
| 4. prep. on the, to (some directions) |
| 5. prep. at (said of a particular time) |
| 6. prep. at, in, on (said of a particular place) |
| 7. prep. of (belonging to) |
| 8. prep. till, until (used in farewells) |
| 9. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with |
| 10. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for |
| 11. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed) |
| 12. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective |
| 13. prep. by |
| 14. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number) |
| 15. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb. |
| 16. prep. , translation=Even though hunger and destitution tormented us sometimes, and even almost always, nothing caused us as much torment as being witnesses to the unheard-of cruelties that my master exercis |
| 17. prep. , chapter=XL |
| 18. prep. with |
| être à |
| 1. v. to pertain to; to belong to; to be one's |
| John |
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