| 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 |
| devait |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of devoir |
| devoir |
| 1. n-m. duty |
| 2. n-m. exercise, assignment (set for homework) |
| 3. v. must, to have to, should (as a requirement) |
| 4. v. (present) must |
| 5. v. (conditional) should |
| 6. v. must, to do or have with certainty |
| 7. v. to owe (money, obligation and etc) |
| 8. v. (literary, intransitive, in imperfect subjunctive, with inversion of subject) (even) though it be necessary (+ infinitive) |
| 9. v. to have a duty to |
| plaire |
| 1. v. to please, to appeal to (usually translated into English as like with exchange of subject and object) |
| 2. v. to enjoy (oneself) |
| 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 |
| son |
| 1. n-m. sound |
| 2. det. (possessive) his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel) |
| 3. n-m. bran |
| public |
| 1. adj. public (various meanings) |
| 2. adj. (relational) of the people as a whole; public datedef, from 1238 |
| 3. adj. public; seen or known by everyone (datedef, from 1330) |
| 4. adj. public; representing the state on behalf of the community (datedef, from 1390) |
| 5. adj. public; open to all (datedef, from 1538) |
| 6. n-m. public (people in general) (datedef, from 1320) |
| 7. n-m. audience (datedef, from 1671) |
