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Des centaines d'abonnés sont encore sans électricité.

Translation

Hundreds of households remain without electricity.



Analysis


des
     1. art. plural of un
     2. art. plural of une
     3. art. plural of du
     4. art. plural of de la
     5. art. plural of de l'
     6. contraction. contraction of de les (of the, from the, some)
     de l'
          1. art. some; the singular prevocalic partitive article
centaines
     1. n. plural of centaine
     centaine
          1. n-f. a hundred or so, about a hundred
          2. n-f. (in plural) hundreds (in arithmetic)
de
     1. prep. of (expresses belonging)
     2. prep. of (used to express property or association)
     3. prep. from (used to indicate origin)
     4. prep. of (indicates an amount)
     5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
     6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
     7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
     8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change)
     9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives.
     10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object.
     11. n-f. abbreviation of dame
abonnés
     1. n. plural of abonné
     abonné
          1. adj. regularly affected by; plagued or dogged with
          2. n-m. subscriber, follower (e.g. on a social network)
          3. n-m. masculine only a household for the purpose of utility delivery
          4. n-m. season ticket holder
          5. Participle. past participle of abonner
sont
     1. v. third-person plural 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. (semi-auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice)
          4. n-m. being, creature
          5. n-m. being, the state or fact of existence
encore
     1. adv. still
     2. adv. more
     3. adv. again
     4. adv. (after the adverb pas) yet, not yet
sans
     1. prep. without
électricité
     1. n-f. electricity




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