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Sentence

Il doit aller en France un jour

Translation

He must go to France one day



Analysis


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
doit
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of devoir: must, has to
     Must
     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
aller
     1. v. to go + à, location (object) = to
     2. v. to attend (school, church regularly) (+preo, à)
     3. v. (when followed by an infinitive verb) to be going (to); will soon; (forms a near-future tense)
     4. v. (when followed by an adverb) to be (feeling)
     5. v. to go well + avec (object) = with (clothes, colors, etc.)
     6. v. to suit (+preo, à, someone)
     7. v. to be X-proof (to be suitable for use in an appliance without running the risk of being damaged in the process) (+preo, à)
     8. n-m. outward trip; journey out; trip away
en
     1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes)
     2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes)
     3. prep. by (used to indicate means)
     4. prep. as
     5. prep. at (used to describe an ability)
     6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition)
     7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years))
     8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while
     9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something
     10. prep. in (used to describe color)
     11. prep. in (used to describe feelings)
     12. prep. in (as part of something)
     13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.))
     14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici.
France
     1. Proper noun. France (a country in Western Europe)
     2. Proper noun. given name, female
     3. Proper noun. surname, French
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)
jour
     1. n-m. day
     2. n-m. daylight, light
     3. n-m. opening, aperture
un jour
     1. adv. one day, someday (at unspecified time in the past or future)




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