| il |
| 1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) |
| 2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) |
| 3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it |
| était |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect 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 |
| dans |
| 1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state) |
| 2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes) |
| 3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time) |
| 4. prep. (with respect to time) during |
| 5. prep. out of, from |
| 6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of |
| 7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les) |
| 8. n. plural of dan |
| un |
| 1. art. an, a |
| 2. num. number box, fr |
| 3. num. one |
| 4. pron. one, someone |
| 5. n-m. one (the number or figure) |
| état |
| 1. n-m. state, condition |
| 2. n-m. (generally proscribed) alternative case form of État |
| tout |
| 1. adv. all |
| 2. det. all |
| 3. n-m. whole, entirety, total |
| 4. pron. everything |
| 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 |
| fait |
| 1. n-m. fact |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of faire |
| 3. Participle. past participle of faire |
| 4. adj. done |
| 5. adj. cut out |
| faire |
| 1. v. to do |
| 2. v. to make |
| 3. v. to say (of a person), to go (of an animal) |
| 4. v. to make (cause someone or something to do something) |
| 5. v. to act like (something) |
| 6. v. (impersonal) to be (of the weather or various situations) |
| 7. v. to do, to make (oneself) |
| 8. v. to be, to get (used for a passive action) |
| 9. v. to ripen (of fruit), to mature |
| 10. v. to become used to, to get used to |
| 11. v. (slang) to do (to have sex with) |
| 12. v. (informal, intransitive) to defecate; (metaphorically) to shit oneself (to be terrified) |
| 13. v. to become, to get |
| tout à fait |
| 1. adv. entirely, exactly, quite |
| 2. interj. certainly, definitely (emphatic yes) |
| déplorable |
| 1. adj. lamentable, regrettable |
