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Sentence

C'est mon onzième anniversaire.

Translation

It's my eleventh birthday.



Analysis


c'est
     1. contraction. it is (used to define the preceding word)
     2. contraction. it is (used to introduce a focus)
     3. contraction. this is
mon
     1. det. (possessive) my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender)
     2. det. Followed by rank, obligatory way of addressing a (male) superior officer within the military. (Folk etymology: military-specific short for "monsieur".)
onzième
     1. adj. (ordinal) eleventh
     2. n-m. (fractional) eleventh
anniversaire
     1. n-m. birthday
     2. n-m. anniversary




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