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Elles se mettent à sortir les weekends

Translation

The girls started going out at weekends



Analysis


elles
     1. pron. they (female)
     2. pron. them (female)
     3. n. plural of elle
se
     1. pron. The third-person reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.
     2. pron.          (to) himself
     3. pron.          (to) herself
     4. pron.          (to) oneself
     5. pron.          (to) itself
     6. pron.          (to) themselves
     7. pron.          (to) each other
     8. pron. (Louisiana) (The second-person plural reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.)
mettent
     1. v. third-person plural present of mettre
     mettre
          1. v. to put; to place
          2. v. to put on
          3. v. to set (to lay a table)
          4. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to start (+ à) (something / doing something), to get around to doing something
se mettre
     1. v. to place self in a place or state
     2. v. to become
     3. v. to put on, to wear
à
     1. Notes. In Canada, à and a are not homophones, à a, a ɑː.
     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. Used in various interjections used as warnings or exhortations
     8. prep. from (origin)
     9. prep. of (belonging to)
     10. prep. till, until (used in farewells)
     11. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with
     12. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for
     13. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed)
     14. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective
     15. prep. by
     16. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number)
     17. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb.
     18. prep. with
se mettre à
     1. v. to start
     2. v. to start (to do something); to take up
sortir
     1. v. to exit, go out, come out
     2. v. to take out, bring out
     3. n-m. end, closing
les
     1. art. plural of le: the
     2. art. plural of la: the
     3. pron. plural of le: them
     4. pron. plural of la: them
weekends




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